{"id":2351,"date":"2002-09-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/09\/02\/2002-09-02-parallel-hindu-body-created-to-build-ayodhya-temple-peacefully\/"},"modified":"2002-09-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-02T12:00:00","slug":"2002-09-02-parallel-hindu-body-created-to-build-ayodhya-temple-peacefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/09\/02\/2002-09-02-parallel-hindu-body-created-to-build-ayodhya-temple-peacefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallel Hindu Body Created to Build Ayodhya Temple Peacefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2002\/aug\/30ayo.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>AYODHYA, INDIA, August 30, 2002: A parallel body of Hindu saints on Thursday resolved to work out an amicable solution to the centuries-old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masj dispute in Ayodhya. Drawn from local congregations and a few other north Indian religious centers, these saints met formally for the first time on Thursday under the banner of the Vishwa Dharam Raksha Parishad. &#8220;We want to see a grand temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram, but we do not want the foundations of this temple to be laid on violence and communal disharmony,&#8221; said Baba Dharam Das, who is the caretaker of Ayodhya&#8217;s oldest temple, Hanuman Garhi. Brahmaswaroop Brahmachari, a prominent Hindu seer from Haridwar, was critical of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. &#8220;[The] VHP has only exploited sadhus and played with their religious feelings and sentiments,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I find that Hindus and Muslims enjoy utmost cordial relations in Ayodhya, but communal trouble is fomented by people sitting in New Delhi.&#8221; Another saint from Haridwar, Hans Das, who is also the general secretary of the Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti said, &#8220;India is not a nation of Hindus alone &#8212; it is a land of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians who have equal right over this soil.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE AYODHYA, INDIA, August 30, 2002: A parallel body of Hindu saints on Thursday resolved to work out,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}