Sabroom (Tripura), Jan 5: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced the Ram Mandir
in Ayodhya will be ready by January 1, 2024.
“Rahul baba, listen from Sabroom that a mammoth Ram Mandir will be ready on January 1, 2024,”
he said attacking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who is in the midst of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, a 3500
kilometres long march from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
Advani's Rath Yatra was believed a major factor in the rise of the BJP in the 1990s which had been
politically hit by both the advent of Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 and the Mandal Commission award in the
late 1980s which saw regional parties espousing the cause of OBCs gaining strength.
Addressing a public rally at Sabroom in Tripura, where assembly polls are due early this year, Shah
said that the Congress and Communists had put the Ram Mandir issue in the jurisdiction of the court
for long, whereas Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for it after the Supreme
Court's order permitting construction.
The Congress and the CPI(M) are the main opposition parties in the BJP-ruled northeastern state and
there are indications that the two will fight the assembly election together.
After decades-long legal battle, the Supreme Court on November 9, 2019, paved the way for the
construction of the Ram temple in the disputed site at Ayodhya, where Babri Masjid was demolished
on December 6, 1992.
The prime minister performed the “Bhoomi puja” for the construction of the temple on August 5,
2020.
At Sabroom in South Tripura district, Shah flagged off a BJP rath yatra, the second one during the day
after Dharmanagar in North Tripura district, aimed at highlighting the state government's
achievements.
The country is safe in the hands of Modi, the union minister said.
“Ten days after the Pulwama incident in Kashmir, Indian soldiers went inside Pakistan and carried
out a successful operation under Modi's leadership,” he pointed out.
A CRPF convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber in Pulwama district killing 40 personnel on
February 14, 2019. The Indian Air Force raided a terrorist camp at Balakot in Pakistan on February
26.
