Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya as 'SC is ours', says UP minister

September 09, 2018 10:44

Uttar Pradesh minister Mukut Bihari Verma sparked a controversy with his comments that the Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya because the Supreme Court is ours.

Mandir hamara aradhya hai .. mandir banega .. mandir bananey ki liye hum log sankalpbadh hai (Temple is our resolve. It will surely come up and we are all committed to it), he said, talking to journalists in Bahraich on Saturday.

When a journalist reminded him that the verdict in the temple case in the Supreme Court is yet to be delivered, the minister casually said, Supreme Court main hain tabhi toh! .. Supreme Court bhi toh hamara hi hai na, Supreme Court bhi hamara hai ... nyay palika bhi hamari hai .. Vidhan Palika bhi hamari hai .. yeh desh bhi hamara hai .. mandir bhi hamara hai (yes, precisely because the matter is with Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is ours, isnt it? The judiciary is ours, the country is ours and the temple is ours too).

Verma, a four-term BJP lawmaker from Bahraich, is the minister for cooperatives.

Some in the opposition felt that such remarks were a deliberate attempt to keep the temple issue in the news in the hope it would help polarise the atmosphere ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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