Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday hit back at Congress after prime grand outdated get together leaders declined the invitation for the consecration ceremony for Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22, saying they had been all the time in opposition to the development of the temple.
BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli mentioned “It should come as no surprise. The Congress party, over the last few decades, really took no steps to see that there should be a temple at Ayodhya. In fact, the Congress-UPA government filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court to deny the existence of Lord Ram. They stood in court and never wanted an early hearing.”
Now, because the temple has come up in Ayodhya, the actual fact is that their resolution displays what they’ve all the time believed – that they did not need a temple there, he added saying they had been saying that that is an occasion of the BJP or the RSS was an excuse.
“In reality, it does not fit with the Congress party’s own thinking, otherwise, they would have been there out of affection for Lord Ram and would have been at Ayodhya and shared the excitement of millions of Indians all across the world and in India,” Kohli mentioned.
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri additionally slammed Congress saying its leaders are caught of their rhetoric and why take them severely? They will remorse it if they do not go.
Another BJP chief and Lok Sabha MP Manoj Tiwari questioned how will they (Congress leaders) go for the darshan? Isn’t it true that Congress fielded senior advocates to make sure that the Ram Temple is just not constructed there.
“They called Lord Ram, a fictional character. The rejected Ram Setu. This has been their mindset from the beginning. I don’t think their thinking is going to change…But people of the country have given the message that besides Lord Ram, PM Modi resides in their minds…Lord Ram belongs to not only BJP and RSS but to every individual. If Congress feels that Lord Ram is not theirs, it is their problem,” he added.
‘Clearly an RSS/BJP occasion’: Sonia Gandhi, Kharge
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, and chief within the Lok Sabha Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury ‘respectfully declined’ Ram Temple invitation by calling it RSS-BJP occasion, calling it RSS-BJP occasion.
The Congress in its assertion mentioned, “Last month, the Congress President and Leader of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson, Smt. Sonia Gandhi and the Leader of the Congress Party within the Lok Sabha Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury obtained an invite to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya to be held on January twenty second, 2024.
