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| | BJP excludes Ram temple, civil code in Chennai Declaration |
 | | ``These are not priority issues right now,'' claims BJP vice president Jana Krishnamurthy,``Of course, they were one of the priority issues of the party at one point.''Post-1983, all political parties had taken different stands on Ayodhya issue and so had the BJP, but the issue had lost relevance now, he added. |
 | | The sentence has now been amended to say, ``Although the ideals are constant, the policies and their interpretation in the light of the changing needs of new situations and challenges have to be renewed from time to time''. |
 | | Krishnamurthy insists that the Declaration was essentially party document, not being a mere copy of the NDA agenda, as was made out to be at Chennai. |
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