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For more than a decade of demolition, Hindutva politics remained on fringe. In Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party remained in power for more than 15 years. Meanwhile, the Ayodhya case was closed in courts, as ‘peaceful resolution’ jumped and disappeared as several attempts.
After the BJP victory on a large scale in the 2014 general election, I met Satyendra Das. The chief priest of Ram Lalla Shrine was not brought from the success of the BJP at the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site. “I have seen a lot of elections where my Lord Ram has been used as a polling agent by BJP and other parties. If the temple is built, it will be through the order of the court and by any government No, the Prime Minister, Prime Minister, (Modi) can try to build a consensus between Hindus and Muslims, but would he noted at that time.
Three years later, in 2017, when the UP assembly elections were around the corner and all the parties were trying to pursue each other to please the “Hindu spirit”, the BJP government at the center established a new Ramayana museum at the center. Announcement. Not to leave behind, the SP government quickly offered to allocate land for it.
When I met him during Diwali in 2017, Das was busy under the supervision of evening preparation. PrayerPlaying with her grandmother, who continued to draw her flowing white beard, Das weighed new efforts for political announcements and ‘peaceful resolution’ of controversy. Raising the child in his arms, he said, “This is nothing more than a lollipop ahead of the election.”
Connecting the choice of his metaphor to the child’s appearance, I asked him what he thought about the revival of media interest in Ayodhya matters. As the child stopped, Das said on a serious face and said, “These things always happen, we are addicted to it; Elections, peaceful resolutions, calls for media stories, it runs here. Those who are supporting these so -called ‘mutual resolution’ plans, they know they will fail but they do it for free publicity.
DAS cannot be rich and powerful like another Smell In Ayodhya. As a government -appointed priest, he had very little control over the donations received; He could not take out any other form of temporary power as the disputed temple was claimed by very large forces like RSS and VHP. However, it did not reduce the importance of slave, or its vigor.
After the Pulwama attack, which took place a few weeks before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he made a statement that PM Modi will now put the issue of Ram temple on the back burner and attacks to improve BJP opportunities and India’s attacks and India Will play the response. The same strategy was played – and the BJP again returned with a waste majority.
The year 2019 marked a watershed moment for Ayodhya.
After the Supreme Court handed over the site to the VHP-Linked parties, the central government determined Make Ayodhya great againThis marked the onset of Satyendra Das’s growing irrelevance. While the newly formed Ram Janmabhumi Trust did not remove him, it reduced his role in Saballer’s methods, which made him bitter. However, he did not cheat his displeasure to sideline the two during the basic ceremony of the temple in 2021 or during its inauguration in 2024.
In the last general election, the BJP lost the seat of Faizabad and the right -wing troll ecosystem blamed the Hindus of Ayodhya for this, Das took me on the phone,
An important chapter of Das’s death on 12 February History and politics of Ram temple The movement is over. Finally, did Das get the reason for him? Did he (and her ilak Sadhus) Get the credit of the temple? Did he die the material with the Ram temple? What will be his legacy?
His life will still remind us that in Ayodhya, where myths and history join each other to create an immoral tapestry of real and imaginary facts, saffron is not a ubiquitous color, but a shadow of versatile Hindutva movement which is finally in construction The temple of Rama has ended.
(Valle Singh is a senior journalist and writer Ayodhya: City of faith, city of discord. This is an opinion piece. The above thoughts are the author’s own. The Quint Neither endors nor responsible for them.)
