After the Union Cabinet and Parliament passed resolutions on the Ram temple in Ayodhya, the BJP’s National Council on Sunday followed suit, saying that the temple’s consecration heralds the establishment of ‘Ram Rajya’ in India for the next thousand years, and claiming that Lord Ram was the inspiration for the fundamental rights enshrined in the Indian Constitution.
The resolution was moved by BJP president J.P. Nadda, who also got an endorsement from the National Council for an extension of his tenure in the post till June 2024, that is, till the conclusion of the Lok Sabha election.
In what seemed to be a bid to avoid overtly majoritarian sentiments, the resolution said that the shrine had become a temple of “national consciousness” and would play a decisive role in fulfilling the resolutions adopted on building a “Viksit Bharat”, or developed India.
