RJD chief Jagadanand Singh says Ram Mandir is being constructed on ‘Nafrat ki zameen’

On Friday (January 6), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Jagadanand Singh courted controversy for labelling the Ram Janmabhoomi because the ‘land of hatred’ whereas speaking in regards to the under-construction grand Ram Mandir.

While talking to the media, the Bihar State President of the RJD claimed, “Today, Ram is confined within 4 walls…His temple is being constructed on a land of hate (Nafrat ki Zameen)…Today in India, the ‘Ram’ of hooligans is thriving in place of humanity.”

“The Ram of the common man is no more. Only a form of him exists, which is confined within the walls of a temple…This is what happened. India was considered to be the land of Ram and Krishna. It is over now,” he additional mentioned.

#WATCH | Ram temple is being constructed on the land of hatred. Ram can’t be imprisoned in a powerful palace…We are the individuals who consider in ‘Hey Ram’ and never ‘Jai Shri Ram’: Jagdanand Singh, Bihar state president, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Patna (06.01) pic.twitter.com/wC1SanBSQY

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“Only a temple of Ram will remain…He will not remain in our hearts but inside the four walls (of the temple). This is beyond my understanding,” Jagadanand Singh continued.

On being advised by a ‘journalist’ that BJP shall be utilizing Lord Ram for the 2024 elections, the RJD chief mentioned, “Ram cannot be removed from people’s hearts and put under house arrest. Neither is He trapped in Ayodhaya nor in Sri Lanka.”

“We are the ones who chant ‘Hey Ram’ and not ‘Jai Shri Ram,” the RJD chief continued to divide the Hindu neighborhood based mostly on non secular sloganeering. This isn’t the primary time that an RJD chief has tried to forged aspersions in regards to the sanctity of the Ram Mandir.

Earlier in 2019, social gathering chief Sanjay Yadav tried to drive a wedge between the Brahmins and non-Brahmins. He tweeted that everybody in India shall be curious to know in regards to the pujari (priest) of the temple as soon as its development is accomplished.

Yadav puzzled if within the new, inclusive India, particularly the one headed by PM Modi who has referred to as for ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas’, will there be a non-Brahmin priest within the Ram Mandir.