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Six days ahead of the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, marking the end of the long dispute over the site, the Supreme Court Tuesday stayed an Allahabad High Court order that had allowed a court-monitored survey of another contested structure: the Shahi Idgah Mosque adjoining the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple in Mathura.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday declined the invitation to attend the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on January 22, saying that he would visit the temple once the construction was complete.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Andhra Pradesh and Kerala to inaugurate infrastructure projects.
A couple of months before the Congress officially refused to attend the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22, the party’s Madhya Pradesh chief ministerial candidate Kamal Nath told The Indian Express in November that Rajiv Gandhi was the one to get the locks of the Babri Masjid opened in the mid-1980s. This sounded like pandering to Hindus and revealed the inability of the party to speak in one voice on the Ram temple question. However, this confusion isn’t new.
The decision of the Congress to keep away from the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya has left the party in a sticky situation in Kerala.
Senior Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia’s statement criticising his party for taking a “political decision” to skip the Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya on January 22 has caused embarrassment for the party, which has been struggling in state politics for many years.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of "doing a gimmick" before the Lok Sabha Elections. She said, "Yesterday I was asked about Ram Mandir... I believe in a festival which takes everyone together, talks about everyone..."