The Congress has stepped up its campaign over the alleged misuse of Ram Temple donation funds in Ayodhya. The controversy has become both a governance issue and a political strategy, because the party is using it to question the alleged control of the temple administration by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) network.
The development matters for UPSC because it connects temple governance, secularism, political mobilisation around religion, and the continuing legal-political history of the Ayodhya dispute. It also raises the question of accountability in trust-based management of major religious institutions.
What happened now
According to the analysis, the Congress has held many press conferences across the country and plans to raise the matter in the Monsoon Session of Parliament, which begins on July 20. The party is urging the Prime Minister to break his “silence” and wants a form of scrutiny, including Supreme Court-monitored examination of the allegations.
The Congress position, as described in the analysis, is that the temple belongs to devotees and not to any one political-movement affiliate. The party is trying to turn the controversy into a critique of Sangh Parivar influence over temple management.
Background and earlier position
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