INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
LUCKNOW: Some of the country's top industrialists and business houses had approached the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) with offers to
construct the Ram Temple in Ayodhya single-handedly after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Ram Janambhoomi in November 2019, a
senior functionary of the right wing organisation said on Monday."The organisation, however, refused the offer and did not even forward it
to the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra -- the nodal body entrusted with the responsibility of constructing the temple.The VHP, instead,
went ahead with its Ram Mandir NidhiSamarpan Abhiyan, a mega campaign envisaging reaching out to over 13 crore families to raise funds for
the temple," VHP national spokesperson Vinod Bansal told TOI.He, however, refused to divulge the names of the industrialists who made the
Bansal said the VHP cadres subsequently fanned across the length and breadth of the country to raise funds for the temple
reach the doorsteps of devotees in the run-up to the inauguration of the temple by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22
itself as a symbol of Indian culture which was once crushed by the Mughals and then in the post-Independence era by successive governments,
The VHP spokesperson said the parishad would also approach people to follow the rituals performed during the consecration ceremony of Ram
