By News Room
– RK Sinha
Immediately after the G-20 summit in the national capital in the coming September, the movement for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will start gathering pace in the country. It is believed that before the Lok Sabha elections, the doors of Ram temple will be opened for Ram devotees from all over the world. Due to this, tourism will also increase rapidly in places like Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar etc. That’s why this question will be asked whether Ram Mandir will become an election issue in the next general elections? It is clear from the way the BJP is going among the public regarding Ram Mandir that the party will present it as its achievement and why not do the work which has been done after 500 years of terrible bloodshed and lakhs of Ram What could not be achieved even by the sacrifice of the devotees, it happened easily under the BJP rule and no one even had the courage to slap. The Ram temple has been a mainstay of BJP politics ever since it came into existence in the 1980s.
If the BJP manages to retain power in this election, Narendra Modi would be the first politician after the country’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, under whose leadership a party would be able to win power three times in a row. At the same time, for many opposition parties including the Congress, the 2024 election is like the last battle of existence. That is why perhaps the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath himself is keeping an eye that the construction of the Ram temple is completed on time.
Undoubtedly, amidst the politics of blame game, the Ram Mandir issue is going to be at the center of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Remember that the BJP had once given the slogan of Ram and Roti. Today this slogan has gone ahead and reached Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. A party with a difference, the BJP is not only at the center of Indian politics today, but in the last decade, it has turned the sun of Indian politics southward. Even a strong socialist thinker like Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia had given importance to Ram’s ideal and public acceptance. He used to say that Ram is present in every part of India. It is impossible to even imagine India without Ram. The whole of India considers Ram as its adorable and worshipable.
Lohia also used to say that the three biggest mythological names of India are Rama, Krishna and Shiva. Almost everyone, at least one in two Indians would have some knowledge about his work. His thoughts and deeds, or what words he spoke when, would be known in detail by one in ten. Ever think how many times in a day the people of India take the name of Lord Ram. This figure will reach in billions and trillions. Bharat will keep on taking the name of Ram.
India has been taking the name of Ram for countless years and will continue to take it. Mohammad Iqbal wrote a famous poem in 1908 in the glory of Shri Ram. They call Lord Ram as Ram-e-Hind. He also writes in this poem – India is proud of Ram’s existence, people consider him Imame Hind. . Gandhi wanted to see the establishment of Ram Rajya in India. He is not the God of Hindu religion. Rather, they are the cultural heritage of the soil of India and it is neither possible nor wise to divide this common heritage.
Well, with the construction of Ram temple, a new era will start in India from next year, which will have an impact on Indian politics. Its sound was also felt in the assembly elections held in various states. The construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya will be the proudest moment for the BJP in its history. Remember that decade of 1980. When the decade started with the memories of the first non-Congress government formed in the country for a short period of time. This issue has been of great importance in the history of the country’s politics since this decade. The BJP had little success in the 1984 elections, but the party remained committed to its vision of building a Ram temple.
At the Palampur convention in 1989, the party decided that its main political agenda would be ‘freeing the Ram Janmabhoomi and building a grand temple’. Preferred leader and former President LK Advani started the Rath Yatra the very next year. From a political point of view, it was a historical event. The foundation stone laying ceremony was held on 9 November 1989. When the Lok Sabha elections were held a few days later, the saffron party’s tally swelled to 85, and it never looked back.
In 1990, firing was done on kar sevaks on the orders of the then Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. The whole country was heartbroken by this incident. Every patriot countryman was deeply shocked. In 1991, after Kalyan Singh became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the BJP took up the Ram Mandir issue with greater vigour. In the elections of 1996 and 1999, the BJP saw considerable success and in 1999, for the first time in the country, a full-term BJP government was formed. Till now the legal battle for the temple was also being fought properly. Believe it definitely, the BJP will make the completion of the construction of Ram temple an election issue. Its effect will be on the whole of India. There can be no debate about this. The BJP would also like to take credit for the removal of all black laws like Article 370.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and top officials of his government expect the number of pilgrims to increase to around one lakh devotees per day once the temple opens. Home Minister Amit Shah, in his address on Tripura tour, has said that the high-rise Ram temple in Ayodhya will be ready by January 1, 2024. Meanwhile, the BJP will expose Asaduddin Owaisi and the Muslim Personal Law Board in front of the country at the time of the next Lok Sabha elections. The Personal Law Board had said that they would convert the Ram temple in the same way as it happened with Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Mosque. This threatening tone will never be accepted by a Hindu majority country.
Did he ever object when the President and Prime Minister of the country used to organize Iftar parties for decades? Owaisi and all the other so-called secularists talk a lot about the interests of the minorities. They should also get their rights at all. But why did they all remain silent on the issue of giving rights to Hindu Pandits in Kashmir. Why is Pakistan keeping silent on the atrocities being committed on minority Hindus, Sikhs, Christians? It seems to be successful in forming the government for the third time.
(The author is a senior editor, columnist and former parliamentarian.)
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