Indira Tiwari, Trinamool Congress candidate from Varanasi, has been associated with the Ram Janmabhoomi case in the Supreme Court in her capacity as general secretary of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, a post she resigned in February this year.

Gearing up now to face Narendra Modi and possibly Arvind Kejriwal in the prestigious seat, she says about Modi that neither she nor her party believes in "untouchability". "It is a democracy after all," she tells The Indian Express at the Trinamool office in Delhi.

Asked whether her party will be open to supporting Modi post polls, she replies, "It is a hypothetical question."

She is proud of her association with the Hindu Mahasabha, emphasising the organisation was set up by the likes of Madan Mohan Malaviya and Lala Lajpat Rai as a social outfit, not a religious one. "I worked there from 2006 to February this year, when I resigned after Trinamool approached me to fight the elections. I was the national general secretary. I want to make it clear that it is the Hindu Mahasabha that is a respondent in the Ram Janmabhoomi case. The BJP is taking the country for a ride by making it look like they are a party. The courts have accepted that the land belongs to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas. As an office bearer I was closely associated with that case," she says.



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