New Delhi:
The saffron parivar waits for the Babri title suit verdict. Unsure which way the ruling will go - only parivar fumbles to construct broad contours of an action plan.
Over the next two days the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) chiefs Mohan Bhagwat and Ashok Singhal will meet in Delhi, just a week before the Ayodhya verdict.
It's perhaps a hint that the VHP will be the front of any response, like it did for the Ram Setu protests.
The BJP and RSS are worried. The polity has changed since the 90s, when the issue won them elections.
Today, the BJP is trying to shed that communal image as voters have rejected strident Hindutva politics. For the sangh parivar, the sants who drove the VHP's movement in the past are staying away, unhappy with the VHP's flip flops in the past.
A third worry, is that if any fringe group reacts violently, the BJP would be blamed. That is why, they've appealed for calm, whatever the verdict may be.
"There is no problem from our side," said Mohan Bhagwat, RSS member.
But the dilemma is just how much can the BJP distance itself from the issue.
"The Ram temple is not a political issue for us. We are sticking to our ideology," said Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, BJP Spokesman.
For long the sangh has maintained that - it will accept any court verdict - on the babri dispute - but now the outfit that has played for long in the backyard of history is uncertain about the future.