| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav has claimed that offerings worth crores (figure garbled in transcript, reported elsewhere as ₹100 crore) were stolen, but the anchor's own sources say such a large amount is a lie.
theft amount dispute
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The police and SIT do not yet know the full number of accused in the offerings-theft case, nor even a rough estimate of the total amount stolen.
investigation progress
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai told police that Tinnu Yadav was an acquaintance but had no unlimited or official authority; the anchor adds that his driver nonetheless moved freely everywhere in the temple premises.
Tinnu Yadav links
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai told police that the staff engaged in counting the hundi offerings were appointed by the bank through an outsourced agency, and that rotating their shifts was the bank's responsibility, not the Trust's.
outsourced staffing responsibility
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
In his police interrogation, Champat Rai said donation information was shared in Trust meetings but not the details of every transaction, and that counting and bank deposits were handled by separate teams.
interrogation statements
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai must take responsibility and keep himself away from the Trust until the truth is fully established; Gopal Rao and Anil Mishra should do the same.
trustee accountability
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai himself had said that an SIT should investigate and that he should be questioned first.
SIT probe demand
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
If Champat Rai remains in his chair with full authority over the Trust's affairs after resigning, the investigation could be influenced/compromised.
investigation integrity
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Even after resigning as general secretary, Champat Rai continues to sit in his position and goes inside the temple daily to carry out his regular work.
Champat Rai resignation
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
At the time of the consecration it was proclaimed that the Ram Mandir signalled the establishment of Ram Rajya in India for the next 1000 years and that Mahatma Gandhi's dream of true democracy had been realised.
Ram Rajya proclamation
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
At that time the BJP, RSS and VHP together ran a 60-day nationwide darshan and celebration campaign across the country.
darshan campaign
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
On 22 January 2024, during the pran pratishtha of the newly built Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, bhajans and kirtans were held in more than 5 lakh temples across the country.
pran pratishtha celebrations
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
The INDIA (opposition) alliance has made a 'mega plan' around the offerings-theft issue, and the channel has information about it.
INDIA bloc strategy
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Around half a dozen cleaning staff were assigned to handle the accounting of temple offerings (chadhava).
hundi accounting lapses
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Champat Rai has been accused, questioned twice by police, and has submitted his resignation, yet he still occupies his position in the Ram Mandir Trust.
Champat Rai resignation
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| Amish Devgan |
2026-07-02 |
Whoever committed the theft (of Ram temple donations) should get the harshest punishment, and questions stand against the BJP government and Pradeep Bhandari's party too, because this is a big matter.
Ram Mandir donation theft
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| Amish Devgan |
2026-07-02 |
In sum, an attempt is being made to portray the delimitation exercise and the Women's Reservation Bill, if passed, as anti-constitutional.
delimitation and women's reservation
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| Amish Devgan |
2026-07-02 |
The narrative that the Modi government has completely failed on foreign policy has also failed; the world is praising Narendra Modi's and the Indian government's foreign policy.
foreign policy record
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| Amish Devgan |
2026-07-02 |
The opposition's narratives — that the Modi government will end reservation, that a huge economic crisis is coming, that EVMs and the electoral process are rigged, and the SIR allegations — have all failed, been demolished, and been rejected by the public.
failed opposition narratives
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Pakistan's climate change minister Musadik Malik threatened that if India tries to stop Pakistan's share of water, 'we will cut off their hands'.
minister's water threat
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that if India tries to restrict waterways it would be considered an extreme situation, and that Pakistan would keep the option of a nuclear reaction open.
nuclear threat rhetoric
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Former Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar said India is a rogue state and that suspending the Indus Waters Treaty shows India is not fit to remain in the UN General Assembly.
Khar's rogue remark
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Several hydropower projects on the Chenab and Jhelum are underway or approved: the 1,000 MW Pakal Dul project in Kishtwar, the Dulhasti Stage II project, the Sawalkot project (stated as 10,856 MW costing ₹31,380 crore), and the 850 MW Ratle project.
Chenab hydropower projects
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
A Chenab–Beas link tunnel project costing ₹2,352 crore has begun in Himachal Pradesh, with an 8 km tunnel that will divert extra Chenab water to the Beas basin.
Chenab-Beas tunnel
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| Rubika Liyaquat |
2026-07-02 |
Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported that the Rice Canal is getting only 5,300 cusecs against 8,700 (a 38% shortfall), the Dadu Canal only 860 cusecs against about 5,000 (82% less), and the North Western Canal 2,100 against about 6,200 cusecs (a 64.1% shortfall).
Pakistan canal shortage
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