NDA govt to hold Ramayana Conclave in Ayodhya

According to sources, ahead of the upcoming UP Assembly polls, the Centre has decided to stick to the venue of the conclave to the Ram Janmabhoomi, Ayodhya. 

People from 12 countries from across the globe will be participating in the conclave. The model of the Ramayana centre to be built in Ayodhya will be on the same lines as in Maldives,  to be decided in the conclave, sources said.

The incumbent saffron government would like to push the Ram temple issue as religious-based equation of the vote-bank had been effective in the heterogeneous caste ecosystem of the Uttar Pradesh.  

However, recently, the party top leadership denied that the issue was not on the poll agenda. The party president Amit Shah urged all to wait for the Supreme Court’s final verdict or achieve mutual consensus on the issue. 

The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh also described the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya as an important ‘cultural issue’, and not political. 

Singh said that the saffron party never indulged in the politics of communal polarization for votes.

After gaining ground in  Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government is likely to re-strategise the upcoming UP polls, scheduled in the early 2017 in a bid to repeat the mandate of 2014 Lok Sabha election. 

Meanwhile, the party preferred to concentrate on the ‘development’ agenda over other fringe issues. 

Political observers feel that somehow, sensing the upcoming poll, the Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to revive the sentimental issues in respective of caste and communities.