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Mangalore, Jun 27: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has stiffly opposed a proposal to wrest control over all Hindu temples in Uttar Pradesh, VHP international president Ashok Singhal said on Monday.

The VHP leader who arrived at Bajpe airport to participate at the “Chinthana Bhaitak” at Shanthi Vana in Dharmasthala told reporters that the UP Government was aiming at taking control of temples with their assets through a new act proposed to be moved in the Assembly soon.

UP cannot overnight take control of temples and its properties through illogical acts and I have communicated the VHP’s objection to UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh.

Lashing at the policies of Congress led UPA coalition government at the centre, he said terrorism had intensified and law and order machinery has collapsed.

Maoists and Jehadi groups are keen on creating instability in the country. Their acts are backed to the hilt by both Pakistan and Bangladesh, he said and urged all countries in the world to declare Pakistan, which has been sponsoring terrorism, as a terrorist country.

Afghanistan and Iraq, which were actively sponsoring terrorism, have been destroyed and ripped apart by other countries. The same treatment should be meted out to Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The “bhaitak” to begin from June 26 and attended by top 69 leaders in VHP is expected to take stock of the prevailing situation in the country, the attempts to blast RSS headquarters in Nagpur among others.

To a query, he said VHP was confident of constructing Shree Rama Mandir at disputed site in Ayodhya at the earliest. BJP vice-president Bala Apte, RSS Pramukhs Shitendra Kumar, Shreepathy Shastri, VHP leaders from Mangalore Prof M B Puranik, Rajgopal Rai, Raj Kulal among others were also present.