New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday steered clear of remarks made by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Akshardham temple getting environment clearance, saying the NDA government must have given the required permission.
"I do not know in what context Ramesh spoke. However, the decision to give the clearance was taken by the then NDA government and the permission was given by the authorities," Dikshit told reporters here.
She was responding to the statement by Ramesh on Friday that the temple was constructed on the Yamuna river bed without mandatory environment clearance.
Raising questions over construction of Commonwealth Games Village and Akshardham temple on the Yamuna bank here, Ramesh had said the games village should not have been given environmental clearance while there was no application ever for such permission to build the temple.
Ramesh had, however, conceded that the structure could not be demolished now.
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