Sunday, March 19 2006 11:34 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Notwithstanding the indirect support of the RSS, the Hindu outfits appear to be skeptical and critical of senior BJP leader L K Advani's plans to embark on yet another Yatra in the wake of the Varanasi bomb blasts.

"The Yatras will be a damp squib. No longer people believe that BJP is going to be loyal to the Hindu cause," says Prafull Goradia, a former MP and General Secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh (ABJS).

Goradia, who left the BJP after the party's rout in the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, said past exeperience has shown that the BJP climbed to power on the ladder of Ayodhya but put the issue on the backburner thereafter.

The veteran Gujarat leader had left the party attributing the poll debacle to the abandoning of Hindutva by the party.

"While we would like every Hindu cause to succeed, the proposed National Integration Yatras do not reflect the confidence of the Ram Rath Yatra of 1990", he said.

"Announced in the wake of the Varanasi bomb blasts, the Yatras would have struck a chord among the common man if it had dealt with protection of Hindu devotees going to temples," Goradia said.

"Advani did nothing for Hindus when he was in power. What can he do now. We have no interest in his yatra. We are not going to support these Yatras at all", says Haridwar-based senior Hindu religious leader Hansdas Maharaj, who is also a Member of the VHP's apex decision making body, the Kendriya Margdarshak Mandal.