BJP's Nityanand Rai on Bihar minister's Ram temple remark: 'Looks like they will worship pictures of Babar, Afzal Guru'

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ALSO READ: Ayodhya Ram Temple consecration ceremony: Cops discuss alternative routes, security arrangements Rai launched a scathing attack on the RJD Minister Chandra Shekhar and the Opposition, saying, "The intentions and policy that they are showing, it looks like they will hang pictures of Babar and Afzal Guru and worship them." He said the country needs Ashfaqulla Khan and Captain Hamid, not Babur, Afzal Guru or Jinnah's 'jinn'. "Here, Lord Ram's integrity is needed," Rai added. ALSO READ: Ayodhya Ram Temple consecration ceremony: Assam declares dry day on January 22 RJD Minister Chandra Shekhar sparked off a controversy with his statements on the Ram Temple and said that if the people fall sick or get injured they will seek medical attention rather than visiting a temple.

"If you get injured, where will you go? Temple or hospital? If you want education and want to become an officer, MLA, or MP, will you go to a temple or school?," Chandra Shekhar said earlier on Monday. ALSO READ: Ram Mandir consecration ceremony to be live telecast at New York's Times Square "Fateh Bahadur Singh (RJD MLA) said the same thing that had been said by Savitribai Phule. What is wrong here? He quoted Savitribai Phule.

Isn't education necessary?" Shekhar said. Shekhar had also cautioned people against "pseudo-Hinduvaad and pseudo-nationalism". "When Lord Ram resides in each one of us and everywhere, where will you go to look for him?...The sites that have been allocated have been made into sites of exploitation, used for filling the pockets of a few conspirators in society...," he had said.