Ayodhya, July 10 (IANS) Amid the ongoing controversy over the alleged Ram temple donation theft row, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday reignited the Hanuman Garhi controversy, accusing previous governments of allowing namaz to be offered at the sacred temple premises and questioning the Opposition over what he described as its selective approach towards matters of faith. During his first visit to Ayodhya since the donation theft controversy surfaced, the Chief Minister inaug…
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Chennai, July 6 (IANS) The Congress’s Tamil Nadu unit onn Monday reaffirmed its support for the C. Joseph Vijay-led state government, resolved to intensify its opposition to Karnataka’s proposed Mekedatu dam project, and demanded a Supreme Court-supervised probe into the alleged misappropriation of donations at the Ayodhya Ram Temple.At its state Executive Committee meeting, chaired by new state President and MP B. Manickam Tagore, at Satyamurthy Bhavan, seven key resolutions covering politica…
Hyderabad, July 6 (IANS) Telangana’s minister for transport and backward classes welfare Ponnam Prabhakar on Monday demanded the BJP to apologise to people of the country for embezzlement of crores of rupees in Ayodhya Ram Mandir. He accused the BJP of using the name of god and ‘akshintalu’ (grains laced with turmeric) for politics.Talking to media persons, the Congress leader recalled that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Ram Janmabh…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The BJP on Monday criticised Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav over his remarks on the Ram Mandir donation embezzlement case, asserting that the SP and the Congress have no moral right to question the issue as they had consistently opposed the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Reacting to Akhilesh Yadav’s criticism of the Uttar Pradesh government, the state’s Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak described the incident as very unfortunate but accused the Oppos…
Bengaluru, July 6 (IANS) Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the BJP after the RSS appealed to the public to exercise restraint over the alleged theft of cash offerings from donation boxes at the newly built Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya.The controversy erupted after the RSS urged people to maintain restraint while expressing concern over the alleged theft and the reported administrative and security lapses at the te…
Mumbai, July 3 (IANS) Hours after Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray announced a statewide ‘Ram Raksha’ agitation over alleged financial irregularities in the Ayodhya Ram Temple donation funds, the rival Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena on Friday hit back, dismissing the upcoming protest as political opportunism and hypocrisy. Slamming Thackeray’s allegations that stolen temple money was being funnelled to engineer political defections, Shiv Sena Minister and spokesperson Sanjay Shirsat termed …
Mumbai, July 3 (IANS) Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday accused the BJP of robbing donations from the Ayodhya Ram Temple and announced a statewide agitation beginning with a ‘Ram Raksha’ protest in Mumbai’s Dadar area on July 5. Addressing a press conference at his residence, Matoshree here, Thackeray alleged that the BJP had “robbed” money donated by devotees at the Ram Temple and demanded accountability. He said the protest would be held near the Hanuman Temple at Dada…
Ayodhya, March 27 (IANS) A wave of devotion and spiritual fervour engulfed the country on Friday as millions of devotees thronged temples on the auspicious occasion of Chaitra Navami, marking the birth anniversary of Lord Ram. From Ayodhya to Patna, Puri to Belagavi, scenes of faith, celebration, and cultural vibrancy unfolded as devotees lined up in long queues to seek ‘darshan’ and offer prayers. In Ayodhya, the birthplace of Lord Ram, an unprecedented surge of devotees flooded the holy city, …
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The latest round of hoax threats that the Indian judiciary has been receiving across the country is the clear continuation of psy-ops against India. In the last year and a half, schools and airlines have been receiving such hoax calls. Officials who are investigating these cases say that these are not one-off incidents, but a coordinated effort to scare the Indian people and keep them on tenterhooks.Intelligence agencies have been warning that this is an operation contro…
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) An article by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, written in 1989 under the pseudonym ‘Aniket’, described the Ram Mandir Shilanyas ceremony in Ayodhya as a historic turning point in what it termed the awakening of Hindu consciousness in independent India.Published in the Gujarati magazine Sadhana’s ‘Akshar Upvan’ column on November 18, 1989, days after the Ram Temple foundation stone laying ceremony held on November 9 and 10, PM Modi, then an active pracharak of Rashtriya Sway…