Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said that government officials probing the alleged embezzlement of donations at Ayodhya’s Ram temple was a “big insult to Sanatan Dharma”. His remarks came after the Uttar Pradesh government constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav addresses the ‘Vision India: Plan, Develop, Ascent’ summit in Agra on Sunday. (HT Photo) Interacting with media persons in Agra, Yadav said, “Anyone believing in Sanatan Dharma cannot tolerate that officers will probe seers associated with such a pious place as the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. It would have been better to close the cameras and lights and ask the guilty to return the embezzled money.”
The SP chief alleged that the BJP was rattled by the growing success of the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit and Alpsankhyak) alliance and was preparing to resort to unfair means in the forthcoming elections. He claimed that support from the Bahujan community was increasing and would bring about a major change in the electoral outcome.
“BJP spends thousands of crores to tarnish anyone’s image and adopts unconstitutional measures to win elections. They claim to become Vishwaguru but are unable to stop paper leaks and have now deployed the Air Force to carry question papers,” he said.
Questioning the role of the Election Commission, Yadav alleged that the BJP had defeated Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal through “negative politics” and heavy deployment of forces.
Referring to speculation about early assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, he said rumours of
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