Maharashtra Congress Chief Patole Calls For Purification of Ram Temple If INDIA Bloc Voted To Power

Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole has stirred up a huge controversy with his comments on the Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya.

Explaining what the Opposition bloc INDIA will do if it comes to power in the centre, Mr Patole said the alliance whose members include Tamil Nadu's DMK and West Bengal's Trinamool Congress will undertake a "shuddhikaran (purification)" of the Ram temple.

"We will do shuddhikaran of the Ram mandir. This is not just INDIA saying. The shankaracharyas of Sanatana dharma also agree that we need to do a purification of the Ram temple," Mr Patole told news agency IANS.