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Kameshwar Choupal, a key leader of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement in 1989 who had laid the first foundation stone for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, passed away in a Delhi hospital Friday. He was 69.
Choupal, a Dalit leader from Supaul, had served as a member of Bihar Legislative Council between 2002 and 2014 and had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections from Supaul in 2014 as a BJP nominee.
Bihar BJP confirmed news of Choupal’s death.
“Permanent member of Ramjanmbhoomi Trust, former MLC and one who had laid first brick for Lord Ram temple in Ayodhya, Kameshwar Choupal, passed away. His death is a big loss to society. The Dalit leader and former prantiya adhyaksh (regional leader) gave his entire life to religious and social works,” the Bihar BJP posted on X.
A senior functionary of the Bihar BJP, Choupal came from Supaul’s Kamrail village. After the Supreme Court’s 2019 ruling on the Ayodhya civil dispute paved the way for the Ram temple there, he told The Indian Express that “it would send a message of peace and camaraderie to the world”.
Bihar Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary said: “Kameshwar Choupal was someone who had been given huge honours of laying the first foundation stone for Ayodhya temple. We lost a great social activist, religious leader and political leader”.
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