A day after reports over a Muslim woman named Zahara Begum has come forward to raise funds for the construction of Ayodhya Ram temple stood as a noble act of religious solidarity, one of the TRS leaders’ remarks asking the state people not to donate came triggered new controversy in Telangana.
Speaking to reporters in Korutla on Thursday, TRS MLA K Vidyasagar Rao asked the people to refrain from donating to “Uttar Pradesh Rama” as the state have several Ram mandhirs. “BJP leaders are playing a new drama under the mask of collecting funds for Ram mandhir,” averred Vidyasagar.
Finding parallels with Yadadri Narasimha Swamy temple which was constructed with state government’s funds, the MLA asked the Uttar Pradesh government to take up the construction with state funds.
