'Seasonal Hindus': Giriraj Singh Stings Congress On Rejecting Ram Temple Invite

Union minister Giriraj Singh attacked the Congress after it turned down the invitation for the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

Union minister Giriraj Singh launched a sharp attack on Congress after it declined invitation for the inauguration ceremony of the Ram Temple event. ( Image Source :PTI )

Union minister Giriraj Singh on Thursday launched a sharp attack on the Congress dubbing its leaders as "seasonal Hindus", after the party top brass declined the invitation for the consecration ceremony the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22. The Congress party on Wednesday announced that the party leaders had turned down the invitiation calling it an RSS/BJP event. 

Reacting to this, Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union minister Giriraj Singh said, "These people are seasonal Hindus, when they feel they have to get votes, they try to become soft Hindus. No one in the Congress has gone to Ayodhya since Jawaharlal Nehru." 

"It was the Congress party itself that had done the work of pending the case in the court, hence they do not have the moral strength to go to Ayodhya," Singh said on Thursday while speaking to news agency ANI. 

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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh released a statement on Wednesday, on behalf of the Congress party, declining the invitation for the inauguration ceremony of the Ram Temple. 

"Last month, the Congress President and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson, Smt. Sonia Gandhi and the Leader of the Congress Party in the Lok Sabha Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury received an invitation to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya to be held on January 22nd, 2024," the statement read. 

"Lord Ram is worshipped by millions in our country. Religion is a personal matter. But the RSS/BJP have long made a political project of the temple in Ayodhya. The inauguration of the incomplete temple by the leaders of the BJP and the RSS has been obviously brought forward for electoral gain," the party said. 

"While abiding by the 2019 Supreme Court judgment and honouring the sentiments of millions who revere Lord Ram, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have respectfully declined the invitation to what is clearly an RSS/BJP event," it added. 

The BJP was quick to react to the development saying they have "lost their mind" as Ravana did in the "Treta Yug".