NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday justified the Congress boycott of the Ram Temple Pran Pratistha ceremony calling it a “completely political Narendra Modi function.”
“It’s a RSS-BJP function and I think that is why the Congress president said that he would not go to the function. We are open to all religions, all practices. Even the authorities of the Hindu religion, the biggest authorities of the Hindu religion, have made their view public about what they think about the January 22 function – that it is a political function. So it is difficult for us to go to a political function which is designed around the Prime Minister of India and designed around the RSS,” Rahul Gandhi said.
The Congress has “respectfully” declined the invitation to join the Ram Temple inauguration function in Ayodhya on January 22 calling it a political project for electoral gains. The grand old party has alleged that the inauguration of incomplete temple in Ayodhya by leaders of the BJP, RSS was obviously brought forward for electoral gains.