The issue of Ram mandir remains. The fact is that there cannot be a movement for the construction of a temple ... The movement for destruction is complete, the mandir will now be made once the governments in Delhi and Lucknow are the same. You see, you cannot have movement with everyone carrying a bag of cement or a; brick each. It is the work of government and once we come to power in Delhi we will build the temple in the same place.

The Imam of Kaba had recently come to India and he has said that there should be no dispute on the issue as according to him the structure in Ayodhya could not have been a Masjid. I am personally writing to the Imam to request him to head a committee of experts from fields of history and theosophy to determine the issue once and for all ... The BJP was (earlier) making efforts at educating the masses about the real issue of minority appeasement. Now they have seen the truth for themselves. Vote of such bogus issues like secularism can lead only to unstable governments ...                                   (Source: The Indian Express, 3 January, 1998)