PTI

New Delhi, Apr 7: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Friday charged senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Kishenchand Advani yet again with "ideological deviation" for suggesting a negotiated settlement to the vexed Ayodhya issue and said the saffron party required "radical surgery" to be back on the Hindutva track.

A day after Advani sought Muslim cooperation for the construction of the Ram temple on the first day of his National Integration Yatra at Rajkot, VHP firebrand general secretary Praveen Togadia said his outfit committed a "blunder" by supporting Advani's 'Ram Rath Yatra' in 1990 and blamed the BJP leader for the "Congressization" of the party.

Last year too, the Sangh Parivar had charged the former Deputy Prime Minister with "ideological erosion" in the wake of his controversial remarks on Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah at his mausoleum in Karachi.

"The experience of the past 450 years have shown that negotiations have not given positive results and the experiences in last 100 years have shown that judicial verdict is also not conclusive. Legislation in Parliament is the surest way to construct the Ram temple," Togadia told PTI, rejecting Advani's call for a negotiated settlement of the imbroglio.

"By suggesting negotiations with Muslims, Advani has willfully neglected the legislative option. It shows he is not ready to follow the BJP's own 1989 Palampur Resolution and that he has deviated from the ideological stand of the party's national executive," he said.