The Congress role in Ram Mandir movement: 1949 to 1980s, how the party failed to speak in one voice
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.