After the dispute arose in 1949-’50, there was a push from within Congress to maintain the status quo and decades later party leader leader Dau Dayal Khanna took the initiative that led to the revival of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.
While Congress has refused to attend the consecration of Ayodhya’s Ram Temple on January 22, the locks of the temple were opened in 1986 under the prime ministership of Rajiv Gandhi. What has the party’s stance been on the subject? Presenting a quick history.
The Ram temple, to be constructed within the year, comes at the end of a chequered history that witnessed heightened religious sentiments and communal riots