Ram Temple: Lack of majority in Rajya Sabha puts BJP in a tight spot

Ram Temple: Lack of majority in Rajya Sabha puts BJP in a tight spot

By NewsGram Staff Writer

Citing lack of majority in the Rajya Sabha, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that it has become difficult for the BJP government to make law for construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Last year, in the run up to the elections, BJP had put the construction of the temple in Ayodhya as one of the foremost promises in its election manifesto.

"BJP does not have a majority in Rajya Sabha, so this time it is not possible to bring motion in the Parliament to make law for the construction of Ram temple," said the BJP leader in his interaction with PTI.

When asked if BJP will bring the motion for a Ram temple if it gets a majority in Rajya Sabha in the days to come, Singh said, "It is an imaginary question."

The Union Home Minister was in attendance in the programme hosted by senior Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Nritya Gopal Das in Ayodhya on Sunday.

The ruling party has 45 members in the Upper House and it is unlikely that it will have the numbers during its current tenure. In the House of 243 members, Opposition has at least 132 MPs.

The BJP leader refused to answer questions related to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim saying, "I will speak some thing on Dawood in a day or two".

This comes soon after the contradictory replies in Parliament on the whereabouts of Dawood Ibrahim, had cast the government into the spotlight.

Soon, however, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said that the underworld don lives in Pakistan and the Centre would continue to pursue the case very seriously.

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