New Delhi, July 18:
The Congress on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced in Parliament the setting up of the Ram temple trust whose activities have resulted in “aastha dhoka (betrayal of faith)”, and demanded that he must break his silence on the issue of alleged donation theft on the floor of the House.
Speaking ahead of Parliament’s Monsoon Session, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the PM created the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust through an announcement in Parliament and it is only appropriate that he takes the two Houses into confidence on what has happened.
“On February 5, 2020, the prime minister himself got up in the Lok Sabha, one of those rare occasions when he comes to Parliament. He came to Parliament to make the announcement that his government was setting up the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust,” Ramesh said.
The Trust was set up by the prime minister and it comprises people appointed by him, Ramesh said, adding the Trust’s activities, its functions, its terms of reference were given by Modi.
“It is this Trust that has betrayed the faith of crores of Indians. There has been ‘chanda chori, aastha dhoka’ by the activities of this Trust,” Ramesh alleged.