Shiv Sena has been trying to ramp up its rhetoric on the construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya.
Agreeing with the Supreme Court's dismissal of PILs against the Rafale deal, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said similarly it is not the court's job to rule on the construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya. He said the questions over the Rafale deal would be resolved in Parliament.
Raut's comment came shortly after the SC dismissed PILs calling for a court-monitored inquiry into the deal to purchase fighter jets from France. The court had said it did not have the Constitutional wherewithal to do so, and that it was not its job to go into questions like pricing or the choice of offset partners.
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"Supreme Court has said nothing wrong. Deciding on pricing is not the Supreme Court's job. But similarly, deciding on building Ram Temple is also not their job. Rafale deal issue will be sorted out in Parliament and not in SC," Raut was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Raut's remarks seem to refer to the Supreme Court fixing the hearing in the Ayodhya titte suit cases for January. A three-judge bench had in October said the cases would appear in front of an appropriate bench, which would then fix the schedule for the hearings. Some parties had earlier tried to compel the court to fix the hearings after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to prevent the BJP from gaining political mileage, which the court refused to do.
However, reports of Raut's comments did not include if he had said anything specific about whether the Shiv Sena agreed with the demand of the Congress, that the deal be investigated for graft by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).
The issue is being pushed as a hot button topic by the Congress, with party chief Rahul Gandhi personally leading the attack. The first working day of the Winter Session of Parliament has already seen disruptions over the Rafale deal.
Raut is the Parliamentary party leader of the Shiv Sena, which is an ally of the BJP. He had earlier said in party mouthpiece Saamna, of which he is editor, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should himself now clarify the confusion over the Rafale deal in parliament.
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