New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday asserted that the presence of Opposition leaders on the consecration ceremony at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya may have relegated them to a supporting position in a programme which, he claimed, belonged to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Tharoor additional supported the Congress management’s determination to skip the January 22 occasion and expressed willingness to go to the temple after the overall elections are over and all of the political deal with the shrine dies down, reported PTI.
Tharoor mentioned, “The Congress’ place could be very very clear. The Congress get together members are free to have their very own faith and non secular beliefs, and everybody’s faith is revered by the get together. So I am going to temples to hope, and to not political occasions.”
Whereas speaking to reporters, the Thiruvananthapuram MP additionally added, “This explicit occasion (consecration of Ram temple) was basically going to relegate the opposition invitees to a form of supporting position for a chief ministerial starring spectacle. I didn’t assume that Congress wanted to play such a supporting position”.
In line with PTI, Tharoor additional emphasised that individuals ought to perceive that the BJP has no monopoly on both Lord Ram or any of the Hindu deities. “However I’m fairly certain that a lot of Congress individuals will go exterior the political context,” he added.
Earlier, Senior Congress leaders, together with get together president Mallikarjun Kharge, former chief Sonia Gandhi and Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had ‘respectfully declined’ the Ram Temple consecration ceremony invite.
Unwilling to take questions on the continuing seat-sharing fiasco between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress, Tharoor mentioned that the matter is being taken care of by the management of his get together, reported PTI.
“This complete alliance or seat-sharing is being mentioned on a state-by-state foundation. Nobody goes to have a one-side fix-all resolution”, he added.