Kolhapur, Jan 16 (Reporter) `Shilanyas' for a Ram temple at Ayodhya was conducted when Rajiv Gandhi was the country's prime minister and the BJP and RSS are doing politics on the issue, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-Sharad Pawar) president Sharad Pawar has said that our prime minister Narendra Modi should also fast to end hunger among the people of the country, as now he is on a ten-day "ups (fast) for Shree Ram Mandir temple. Pawar, who was addressing the NCP worker's rally in honour of the newly elected Gram panchayat members at Nipani of Belgaum district (Karnataka), in the adjoining border area of the state, said that we have respect for Shree Ram Shree Hanuman. After the fall of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya, the decision to build a Ram temple was taken by then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and also laid stone by Mr. Gandhi, but now the Bhartiya Janata Party and RSS were taking political advantage of it for votes. Concerning Ram Mandir, Pawar questioned whether the government will undertake such a programme to eradicate poverty as well and whether Mr. Modi will fast to end the suffering of the people of the country, as now he is fasting for ten days at Ram Mandir temple. Pawar said the central government, led by Mr. Modi, has no concern for the farmers of the country, with the government remitting loans to industrialists but not to farmers. The government was implementing wrong policies, and people should set aside such persons, those implementing wrong economic policies in the country. When he was agriculture minister in the Manmohan Singh-led cabinet, he remitted farmers' loans. NCP state president Jayant Patil, who was also present on this occasion, said that in the recently concluded election in Karnataka, the BJP took shelter of Shree Hanuman but had no effect on voting, and in the same way, the BJP and RSS were taking shelter of Shree Ram on the backdrop of the coming Loksabha elections...////...