Ram temple trust land deal row escalates

Ram temple is a matter of faith. People have made donations out of faith. The trust must clarify ...there are some people in the opposition who do not like anything positive in context to the Ram temple

LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: A day after allegation that Shriram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust looking after the construction of the Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya paid an inflated price for land around the temple complex, the war of words continued between the opposition parties and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with the former calling for an investigation into the “scam” and the latter saying it is a ploy to “defame” the birth place of Lord Ram.

On Sunday, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and Samajwadi

Party leader Pawan Pandey. alleged that Champat Rai, general secretary of Shriram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, purchased 1.208 hectares of land worth ₹2 crore in Ayodhya’s Bag Bjaisi village for ₹18.5 crore with the help of trust member Anil Mishra.

Attaching several documents, Singh tweeted: “Ravi Mohan Tiwari and Sultan Ansari bought land worth ₹2 crores at 7:10 pm. At 7:15 pm, Champat Rai of Ram Janmabhoomi Trust bought this land from them for ₹18.5 crores.”