Spiritual leaderexpressed his candid views on building the Ram Mandir , doing away with farm loan waivers and why Sabarimala is not a gender rights issue in an interview with ET. Excerpts:The farm sector needs intervention, but loan waiver is not the right thing to do. In the 1970s when bank nationalisation happened, one promise was that banks will lend to the poor. By saying you don’t have to return the loan, you are criminalising the whole population. Farm loan waivers eventually take farmers back into the hands of money lenders. We have seen 50 years of making finance available to the rural people. If you set a culture of not returning money, how long will one give you money?Direct cash transfer is very good because earlier the entitlements were not reaching the last man. Jan Dhan account scheme is one of the most revolutionary programmes Rs 6,000 is not a small amount for an impoverished person.GST is one of the most significant economic steps taken in last few years. It has affected small business, but if India will always remain a small business.I only said that in the last four years one good thing is that none of the major cities has witnessed a bomb blast. It has happened in Kashmir and in the Red (Naxal) corridors but when is the last time it has happened in a major urban centre? I said thanks to our security forces and somebody made it up like thanks to the BJP.EVM is a miracle. People are just being bad losers. When they win, they speak one language and when they lose, they speak another. Everywhere we are trying to do paperless transaction, but when it comes to polling, you want to go back to the paper ballot so that you can fix it and change it and do all kind of things which is not possible with EVMs. I have spoken to the people who manufacture theses EVMs. You can hack a machine only when it is communicating with some other machine or person. You can hack a phone, a computer but not a calculator.It’s absurd that the court has to make it clear that Rama was born. The ASI has also said that there was a temple. Now, the court is saying it’s a real estate issue. In which case, please settle it. Ram temple should never be an election issue, the court should fix it for good this time. Just build the temple and be done with it. Out of entire land, the disputed land is only about 2.7 acres. If one third of it belongs to Muslims , ideally they should be given their share with extra 2.7 acres outside the disputed land. Isn’t it the way we resolve our land disputes? The emotion is on the Hindu side because they believe that it is here that Ram Lala was born. There is no such emotion on the Muslim side. The court must settle it before the elections.The Sabrimala issue has got nothing to do with gender discrimination. There are more Devi temples than any other deity. The temple is not a place of prayer. You are supposed to go there for darshan. But Sabrimala deity is an Akal Brahmchari. It is his personal abode… his bedroom. Why do you want to go there? The court should not decide what should happen in a temple.The time has come for the idea of reservation for economically weaker sections. The only thing is people may say it has been done so close to elections. But there is always some or the other election going on in the country.