“There has been large-scale misappropriation in several projects, including the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya,” Labour Minister and Congress leader Santosh Lad said in Hubballi on Sunday.
He said that there have been violations of rules, lack of transparency and diversion of funds, in the works taken up by the Union government and some State governments, including Uttar Pradesh. “The governments have also borrowed heavily, but failed to utilise those funds properly,” he said.
There has been corruption in the construction of Ram Mandir. “If Union Minister Pralhad Joshi were to engage in a public debate, I will face him with all the facts,” he said.
