Hardline Hindus on Friday accused Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of doing nothing to resolve a highly volatile dispute over plans to build a temple on the ruins of a mosque razed by Hindu zealots in 1992.

"We are not happy. We went to him (Vajpayee) with certain expectations and we came back empty handed," said Vishnu Hari Dalmiya, head of the right wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP or World Hindu Council).

"All the assurance we got was that he will ask the law minister to examine the legal and constitutional aspects of our demand," Dalmiya said in a television interview to be broadcast on Saturday.

In December 1992, the 16th century Babri Mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya was destroyed by Hindu zealots, sparking some of India's worst ever Hindu-Muslim violence in which some 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.

Hindu hardliners like the VHP believe the mosque was built over the birthplace of the Hindu god Ram and have given the government until March 12 to give the green to their

plans to build a Ram temple over the remains of the destroyed mosque.

The disputed site is currently under the protection of the courts.

On Sunday, a delegation of VHP leaders called on the prime minister at his residence and demanded that they be given a large plot of land around the disputed site to allow preparations for the temple's construction.

During the meeting, the prime minister assured the activists that he would ask the law ministry to look into their demands.

But Dalmiya was clearly dissatisfied.

"All that he had to do was to convince the other side (Muslims) that their claim is unjustified and they should accept the position taken by the VHP," he said.

Dalmiya reiterated the VHP stand that the courts could not resolve the dispute.

"The court case is not progressing. It is already pending in the courts for the last 50 years and the way it is going on, it will take another 50 years," he said.