Citing considerable delay by the Supreme Court, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has reiterated a demand to promulgate an ordinance or legislate a law to facilitate the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The BJP's ideological parent said on Wednesday that the temple was a matter of national pride and not a political or religious one.

RSS joint general secretary Dr Manmohan Vaidya said this after Sangh chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat inaugurated a three-day Akhil Bharatiya Karyakarini Mandal (working committee meeting) at the Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini at Keshav-Shrusti in Uttan in Bhayandar, on Wednesday morning.