Congress urged PM Modi and Supreme Court docket to order a probe into the alleged land rip-off at Ayodhya (File).
New Delhi:
The Congress on Sunday alleged a rip-off within the buy of land by the Ram Temple Belief in Ayodhya and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Supreme Court docket to “fulfil their duty” by ordering a court-monitored probe to search out the reality.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala alleged {that a} BJP chief purchased 890 sq. metres of land in Ayodhya for Rs 20 lakh in February and offered it to the Temple Belief for a whopping Rs 2.5 crore, making a revenue of 1,250 per cent in solely 79 days.
“BJP leaders are clearly complicit on this “loot” of donation collected for the development of Ram Mandir. The on a regular basis revelations mirror brazen plunder of crores of donations with energetic abetment of the BJP authorities,” the Congress chief alleged.
He stated the individuals won’t ever forgive anybody who misappropriates donations within the title of Lord Ram and questioned the “silence” of the Prime Minister and the Supreme Court docket.
“Lord Ram’s temple is being constructed as per the orders of the Supreme Court docket. Is it not the duty of the Supreme Court docket and its judges and the Prime Minister, who fashioned the Belief, to search out out the reality and examine this?
“Should not the Supreme Court docket take cognisance of the matter? The Supreme Court docket ought to discharge its responsibility… maintain an audit of all the transactions beneath its monitoring and punish the culprits,” he instructed reporters when requested if the celebration would transfer the courtroom.
“Now the query is whether or not the Supreme Court docket and the Prime Minister will discharge their responsibility, we depart it to their discretion,” he stated.
Mr Surjewala stated whether it is anybody’s duty, it’s PM Modi’s as he fashioned this belief.
“It isn’t solely a query of morality, however additionally it is a query of constitutionality,” he stated, including that the ball is now within the Prime Minister’s courtroom on what motion he takes.
The Congress had earlier alleged {that a} land bought for Rs 2 crore was offered for Rs 18.5 crore to the Belief “inside minutes”, as per the land deed registered on March 18 this yr, and demanded a Supreme Court docket-monitored probe into the “rip-off”.
BJP leaders had hit again on the Congress, claiming those that had been against the Ram temple constructions had been now attempting to derail it by making false and deceptive allegations.
The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Belief had additionally dismissed the allegations as politically motivated.
Mr Surjewala stated with the “details” now within the public area, an investigation is required beneath the supervision of the Supreme Court docket to establish the reality.
Posing 5 inquiries to PM Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, he requested, “What’s the cause for the intriguing silence of Modi ji-Adityanath on the brazen loot of crores and why no motion is being taken towards the sinners who brazenly looted funds for the development of the Ram temple.”
“The Modi-Yogi governments ought to know that they can not escape their bounden responsibility i.e. Raj Dharma to punish the culprits,” Mr Surjewala stated.
