NEW DELHI: India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party conceded defeat on Tuesday in a constituency where Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a grand Hindu temple seen as an important event and key to the party’s electoral victory.
With the opposition Samajwadi Party and Congress contesting more than half of the 80 seats, including Ayodhya in the Faizabad constituency where Modi opened a temple in January, it is likely to suffer heavy losses in northern Uttar Pradesh.
The opening of a temple dedicated to the deity Lord Ram in an area once disputed by India’s Muslim minority has fulfilled a three-decade-old promise by BP at almost every campaign rally in India’s two-month general election. – big country.
According to a video shared by the Indian Express daily, the current MP from Faizabad, Lallu Singh, told a party worker, “I cannot defend your honor and Ayodhya, I must have made some mistakes.”
“There must be a reason why we could not win the Ayodhya parliamentary constituency.”
Singh has been elected to parliament twice, in 2014 and 2019, when the Faizabad constituency held 71 and 62 seats in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state.
The latest trend of the polling panel shows that the Budget is the lowest with 33 seats in the country, which has attracted the attention of analysts about unemployment and high inflation.
“We are very happy with the temple, but people are fed up with BHJ,” said Rakesh Adadav, president of Ayodhya Vyapar Mandal, a trade body.
Before the inauguration of the temple, he said, there was anger among small businessmen that compensation was expected when their shops were demolished during the reconstruction of Ayodhya.
“People will not always fall for caste politics or church-mosques. They also want to see progress, the results may surprise us all,” he said.
The Ram temple was built on the order of the Supreme Court in 1992 after a bloody dispute in which the Hindu community claimed to have demolished the existing 16th century mosque and built it on the birthplace of the king.
