| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Before 2014, majority Hindus in India were cast as the 'elder brother' and minority Muslims as the 'younger brother', with Hindus told to forgive every mistake of Muslims and bear sole responsibility for secularism.
pre-2014 communal narrative
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The Ram Mandir in Ayodhya received about 7 crore devotees in a year — the highest footfall of the temples compared — but only ₹153 crore in donations, meaning each devotee donated on average only about ₹20–30.
Ram Mandir donation gap
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The Shirdi Sai Baba temple in Maharashtra received 3 crore devotees in 2025–26 and roughly ₹660 crore in donations, averaging about ₹220 per devotee.
Shirdi donations
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The Mata Vaishno Devi temple in Jammu & Kashmir gets about 95 lakh visitors annually and received about ₹231 crore in donations.
Vaishno Devi donations
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The Sri Venkateswara (Tirupati Balaji) temple in Andhra Pradesh gets about 2.5 crore devotees annually and received about ₹1,600 crore in donations in 2025 — the highest of any temple in India — averaging roughly ₹644 per devotee.
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
In the counting room, located in the basement of the pilgrim facility centre, the 40 donation boxes are opened only in the presence of trust officials, State Bank of India staff and counting employees, and 44 employees count the donations in two shifts before the cash is sealed and deposited into the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust's SBI account.
donation counting process
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
In the year 2024–25, the Ram Mandir received donations of ₹153 crore, comprising cash as well as gold, silver, diamonds and jewellery.
Ram Mandir donations
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
The Ram Mandir has 40 donation boxes in total, and on average 75,000 to 1 lakh devotees visit every day.
temple footfall
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-07-01 |
At the Ram Lalla consecration in January 2024, Dr. Anil Mishra and his wife were made the yajman (chief patrons) of the seven-day religious rituals.
consecration yajman irony
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-07-01 |
Before 2014, majority Hindus in India were cast as the 'elder brother' expected to forgive every mistake of minority Muslims, and this appeasement politics ran in the country until 2014.
minority appeasement politics
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-06-30 |
Great injustice was done to Sarla Bhat and hundreds of thousands of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, and the whole country should apologize to them for it.
national apology demand
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-06-30 |
Kashmiri Pandits were told overnight to flee if they wanted to live, those who stayed were threatened with open killings in the streets, and many were in fact killed.
Kashmiri Pandit exodus
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-06-30 |
Sarla Bhat was murdered solely because she was a Kashmiri Hindu (Pandit) who refused to leave Kashmir.
targeted Hindu killing
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-06-30 |
Kashmiri terrorists at the time deliberately terrorized Kashmiri Pandit Hindus so they would flee the valley, and that is what eventually happened.
Kashmiri Pandit exodus
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| Sudhir Chaudhary |
2026-06-30 |
The media never made Sarla Bhat's murder a headline and the ecosystem of that era never allowed such incidents against Kashmiri Pandits to reach the country's public; the whole country should apologise to them for this injustice.
media silence Kashmiri Pandits
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| Navika Kumar |
2026-06-30 |
Politics is turning everything, including religious matters like the Ram Mandir, into a religious spectacle purely for electoral gain.
religion as spectacle
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| Navika Kumar |
2026-06-30 |
UP Congress chief Ajay Rai has reached Hanumangarhi.
Congress Ayodhya visit
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| Navika Kumar |
2026-06-30 |
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut says Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal and Uddhav Thackeray should all make a joint visit to the Ram temple.
joint temple visit call
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| Navika Kumar |
2026-06-30 |
A Congress delegation, including UP Congress chief Ajay Rai, set out for Ayodhya to seek darshan at the Ram temple — the very temple critics say the party once questioned.
Congress Ayodhya visit
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
Not just in Ayodhya but in every corner of the country and the world, Ram devotees feel hurt after hearing this news.
devotee sentiment
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
Those entrusted with the responsibility of serving Ram turned out to be the thieves; jewellery was stolen and money was misappropriated.
temple donation theft
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
The anchor spent the entire day in Ayodhya speaking to people in every lane and neighbourhood, and all of them are stunned, troubled, and deeply saddened by the donation theft.
devotee reaction Ayodhya
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
Three important statements on the scandal came today: from preacher Dhirendra Krishna Shastri, from singer Kanhaiya Mittal who sang the famous song 'Jo Ram ko laaye hain', and from Sunil Lahri, who played Lakshman in the Ramayan TV serial.
religious figures' reactions
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
There is no doubt that every Ram devotee is pained and troubled by the donation-theft scandal and wants the harshest possible punishment for those who committed this betrayal of Ram.
punishment demand
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-30 |
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that if there had been any Muslim in the trust, his house would have been bulldozed and he would have been killed in an encounter by now.
Owaisi double-standard remark
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