"The BJP is proud to be associated with the Ram temple movement and we appeal Muslims to hand over the disputed site to Hindus to resolve the vexed issue in the wake of the ASI report," BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters at the airport here on way to Solapur to campaign for the September 26 Lok Sabha by-polls.

The Ram Janmabhoomi issue had political overtones and BJP would face it legally as well as politically, he said.

Referring to the Rae Bareli court's order to frame charges against BJP leaders, Naidu said: "Let the law take its own course" but added: "We shall fight the legal battle and will certainly not give up."

The BJP president said it was the erstwhile Congress government which had filed the case but BJP-led NDA government had decided to fight the legal battle rather than choosing to withdraw the chargesheet.