LUCKNOW: Newly appointed Vishwa Hindu Parishad chief Alok Kumar on Monday said there was no need for agitation for Kashi and Mathura. “We’re on the right side of the law, and the matter should be left to the court. The law will take its own course. There is no need for any agitation for Kashi and Mathura,” Kumar told TOI, soon after VHP’s central management committee meeting in Ayodhya.
His statement came after Allahabad HC dismissed Gyanvapi mosque management committee’s appeal challenging the Varanasi court’s Jan 31 order allowing prayers in the southern cellar of the complex.
Kumar, who was elected unopposed as VHP’s full-time international president, replaces RN Singh. A lawyer by profession, Kumar has been an old guard in RSS and worked as its ‘pracharak’ for six years from 1974 to 1980.