"Ayodhya's Ram Mandir will be ready by 1st January 2024," says Amit Shah

New Delhi, Jan 6: "Ram Temple in Ayodhya will be ready on January 1, 2024", Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday while addressing a public rally in Tripura. He added that the Congress has been hindering the Ram Temple construction case in courts since independence and the Supreme Court's verdict on the matter came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power.

"The Ram Temple issue was being stalled by the Congress ever since the independence. It was after when PM Modi came to power that the Supreme Court gave its verdict and the construction of the temple began the same day following a ‘bhoomipujan’," Shah said addressing the public in Sabroom in South Tripura.

"During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, I was the president of the BJP and Rahul Baba was the president of the Congress. He used to ask every day – the date of construction of the temple there will never be told. So Rahul baba, open your ears and listen, on January 1, 2024, you will have the grand Ram temple in Ayodhya ready," he said.

Amit Shah further said, "Not only the Ram temple, wait one or two more years from now, the temple of Devi Tripura Sundari will also be made so grand that the whole world will come to see it here. We built the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor. The Mahakal is also built. Somnath and Amba Ji’s temple will soon glitter with gold. The all-new temple of Maa Vindhyavasini is being built."

The construction work of Lord Shri Ram’s temple in Ayodhya is going on at a rapid pace. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Ram temple on August 5, 2020, and it is expected to be completed within 2023.

The purpose of Tripura BJP’s ‘Jan Viswas Yatra’ is to showcase the developmental works done by the BJP government since 2018. The eight day programme will cover 60 constituencies in the state.

BJP national president JP Nadda is scheduled to be present on the concluding day of the Yatra on January 12.