New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today categorically said the government would await the Supreme Court verdict on the Ram Temple issue as he urged all parties to cooperate to complete the judicial process without any hurdles, while making a distinction in the differentiated approach of the BJP towards triple talaq and Sabarimala verdicts.

“We have said in our manifesto that a solution would be found to this issue under the ambit of the Constitution,” PM Modi told news agency ANI in an interaction where he chose to answer questions on a range of contentious issues.

Downplaying the possibility of a coalition against him in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he said the polls would be between “janata” and “gathbandhan”, and that Modi was just a manifestation of public love and blessings.

He said the gathbandhan’s effort was firmly rejected in the Telangana Assembly elections recently, as also in the civic body polls in several states. He maintained the BJP believed in accommodating its allies.

These included the Rafale jet deal, efficacy of surgical strikes, the need for demonetisation, crackdown on defaulters, social issues like lynching and emerging political formations in the form of “mahagathbandhan”.

Responding to whether the government would consider promulgating an ordinance for Ram Temple just as it did for triple talaq, PM Modi said in case of the latter, it came after the Supreme Court verdict. With the apex court currently hearing the case, the PM said lawyers belonging to the Congress should avoid placing hurdles in the resolution of the issue. “After the judgment is delivered, the government will do what it has to,” he said.