Cong’s top brass asks Nana Patole to exercise caution after his remarks on Ram Mandir

While addressing a press conference recently in Dhule, Patole said the Ram temple in Ayodhya will be purified by four Shankaracharyas if the INDIA front government comes to power as Prime Minister Narendra Modi acted against protocol in the temple construction.

“Shankaracharyas were opposing this (pran pratishtha ceremony). All four Shankaracharyas will purify the Ram temple. The Ram darbar will be established in that place. It is not Lord Ram’s idol there, but of Ram lalla,” said Patole.

According to sources within the Congress, Patole’s remarks have not gone down too well with the high command, which is already unhappy with the controversy that has been churned out of Wadettiwar’s statement on the 26/11 attacks.

“Hemant Karkare was not killed by bullets of terrorists like Ajmal Kasab, but by a policeman close to RSS….Ujjwal Nikam, who appeared as special public prosecutor, is a traitor who suppressed this fact and the BJP has given an election ticket to a traitor like him,” Waddetiwar had said.

The BJP has pitted Ujjwal Nikam as the Mahayuti’s candidate from Mumbai North Central constituency for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The party had quickly distanced itself from the statement stating it does not endorse it and that Wadettiwar made the statement in his personal capacity.  It had even warned Wadettiwar not to make such statements again.

“The election should be fought only on the issues raised in the Congress manifesto. No matter how much BJP tries, no senior Congress leader should lose focus. It is expected that state leaders too would do the same,” a senior party leader from Delhi told The Indian Express.