Raj Thackeray alleges theft of ₹18 crore from Siddhivinayak Temple donations

Alleging that ₹1,400 crore had been stolen at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Thackeray remarked that temples are not safe these days and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak on this issue.

Frustrated youths visit temples, but even temples are not safe from corruption, he said, news agency PTI reported.

Thackeray was reportedly reading out a letter written by eight trustees of the temple, saying that some employees who stole money from the donation box at the Siddhivinayak Temple were caught due to the alertness of the trustees. He claimed that the temple's weekly earnings went from less than ₹50 lakh to ₹1.5 crore after the theft was caught.