‘BJP will ensure free visit to Ayodhya temple if voted to power’

Hyderabad, Nov 18: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday announced that the BJP will ensure free visit to the Ram temple in Ayodhya for all the people of Telangana, if the saffron party was voted to power in the coming Assembly elections.
Shah, who addressed election rallies at Gadwal, Nalgonda and Warangal, alleged that the Congress has hindered and delayed construction of Ram temple for the last 70 years.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had performed the ‘Bhumi Puja’ of the temple and the ‘pran pratishtha’ would be done on January 22, 2024, he said.
Shah urged the gathering to elect the BJP to power in Telangana and said the party-led government would arrange darshan of Lord Ram in Ayodhya free of cost to all.
Training guns on the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS government in Telangana, he said it gave religion-based reservation to Muslims, which is “unconstitutional”.
The BJP has decided to abolish religious reservation and increase quota to OBCs and STs, should it form the next government in the state, he said. “Reservation was given to Muslims by snatching it away from OBCs and STs under pressure from Owaisi,” he said. Terming both the Congress and BRS as ‘anti-backward class’, he claimed that only the BJP and PM Modi can do good for BCs. He reiterated the BJP’s promise to make a backward class leader Chief Minister of the state. (PTI)