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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent speech to senior trainees of the Sangh in Nagpur was viewed as a rebuke to the BJP, a conciliatory gesture to the Opposition and wise words for the entire political class.
Arjun Modhwadia was conspicuous by his absence at the media interaction of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) on Monday, which shared the itinerary of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra which enters the state on March 7. Even though the Porbandar MLA was already on his way to hand over his resignation to the Speaker, Congress leaders remained in denial when asked about the rumours that Modhwadia had quit.
THE PARLIAMENT – both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha – Saturday adopted a resolution on theconsecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya which praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for playing an “unparalleled role” in uniting the entire nation on the “auspicious occasion”.
Given the scale of the celebrations around the Ram Temple inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ayodhya is set to be the ruling BJP’s major plank in the coming Lok Sabha polls. However, on the road from Delhi to Ayodhya in the run-up to the consecration shows that while the Temple will be a deciding factor for a large section of the electorate, for many, it will be one of several issues, with caste still a big determinant.
With the party’s top leadership deciding to stay away from the event, Congress’s Vikramaditya Singh and Nirmal Khatri were the only party leaders to attend the idol consecration ceremony at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on Monday. While Vikramaditya is a minister in the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led Himachal Pradesh government, Khatri is the former Faizabad MP and Uttar Pradesh Congress president.
Early accounts of European travellers cited by the Supreme Court in its 2019 Ayodhya title suit judgment and a just-released book on Ayodhya by former Rajya Sabha MP Balbir Punj of the BJP record popular beliefs in the temple town that a castle or temple devoted to Hindu deity Ram once stood there.
Sachin Gupta, 25, and Rohit Dubey, 27, have braved the icy winds blowing across from the Ganga to climb up to the Siddhanath Temple in Kanpur’s Jajmau area. But on the minds of both is another shrine, the Ram Temple coming up in Ayodhya, and how their colonies and nearby markets are gearing up for the temple inauguration.
Having turned down invitations to attend the Ram Mandir consecration ceremony in Ayodhya on Monday, several parties in the INDIA bloc of Opposition parties, acutely aware of the political minefield that they are navigating, are marking the day in some way.