Participating in the debate on "the construction of historic Shri Ram Temple and Pran Pratishtha of Shri Ramlala", Sarangi said he had also gone for 'karseva' during the Ram temple movement. "(Prime Minister) Narendra Modi did an impossible task. If the Congress was in power, I can guarantee that the Ram Temple would have never been built," Sarangi, who represents Odisha's Balasore in the Lower House of Parliament, said. The BJP leader said that the Ram temple is a "Rashtra Mandir".