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The Ram Temple and its political implications

No politician wants to be known as anti-Hindu on the eve of the 2024 parliamentary polls in a country that is 80 percent Hindu.

PM Narendra Modi overseeing the ongoing construction activity at the temple / X@ShriRamTeerth

The campaign to build the expansive Ram Janmabhoomi Temple at the holy city of Ayodhya in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh culminated mid-January with a week of religious group events and private devotional prayers, all of it of course cut through with political and cultural Hindutva messaging in the run-up to India’s 2024 parliamentary elections.

 

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