{"id":28551,"date":"2026-06-30T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/has-it-become-a-crime-to-have-darshan-of-lord-ram-congress-alleges-ajay-rai-put-under-house-arrest-ahead-of-ayodhya-visit-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:47:00","slug":"has-it-become-a-crime-to-have-darshan-of-lord-ram-congress-alleges-ajay-rai-put-under-house-arrest-ahead-of-ayodhya-visit-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/has-it-become-a-crime-to-have-darshan-of-lord-ram-congress-alleges-ajay-rai-put-under-house-arrest-ahead-of-ayodhya-visit-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Has it become a crime to have darshan of Lord Ram?&#8217;: Congress alleges Ajay Rai put under house arrest ahead of Ayodhya visit | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132078878,imgsize-101324,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ajay-rai.jpg\" alt=\"'Has it become a crime to have darshan of Lord Ram?': Congress alleges Ajay Rai put under house arrest ahead of Ayodhya visit\" title=\"Ajay Rai put under house arrest ahead of Ayodhya visit (Image\/PTI)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Ajay Rai put under house arrest ahead of Ayodhya visit (Image\/PTI)\">Ajay Rai put under house arrest ahead of Ayodhya visit (Image\/PTI)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday alleged that its Uttar Pradesh unit chief Ajay Rai was placed under house arrest a day before a high-level party delegation was scheduled to visit Ayodhya and offer prayers at the Ram Temple.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The party claimed the action was taken to prevent the delegation from visiting Ayodhya amid the ongoing controversy over the alleged embezzlement of funds related to the Ram Temple.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>In a late evening post on X, the Uttar Pradesh Congress said, &#8220;Has it now become a crime in UP to even have darshan of Lord Shri Ram?&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>The party said a Congress delegation led by state president Ajay Rai was scheduled to visit Ayodhya on Tuesday to offer prayers at the Ram Temple. <!-- -->It alleged that the BJP government, &#8216;scared of this journey&#8217;, had started taking &#8216;cowardly actions&#8217;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>It also alleged that Pratapgarh district Congress president Neeraj Tripathi was detained by police without any reason.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>&#8220;Lord Shri Ram does not belong to any one political party or ideology, but is a symbol of the faith and culture of the entire country. Stopping devotees from going to Ayodhya is unconstitutional,&#8221; the party said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>The Congress demanded that the Uttar Pradesh government immediately release its leaders and allow them to visit Ayodhya without any hindrance.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>The delegation, led by Ajay Rai, is scheduled to include Congress MPs Kishori Lal Sharma (Amethi), Rakesh Rathor (Sitapur), Ujjwal Raman Singh (Prayagraj) and Tanuj Punia (Barabanki). Former MP SP Gautam, former MLC Deepak Singh, former MLA Virendra Chaudhary and former MLA Mita Gautam are also expected to be part of the visit.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Earlier, Uttar Pradesh minister Dayashankar Singh accused opposition leaders of not believing in Lord Ram and questioned their criticism of those associated with the Ram Temple.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>&#8220;These are the people who do not believe in Lord Ram. Some among them do not even accept his existence. They have never gone for Lord Ram&#8217;s darshan. Have those criticising ever visited the Ram Temple? Have they made any contribution to its construction?&#8221; Singh told PTI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/has-it-become-a-crime-to-have-darshan-of-lord-ram-congress-alleges-ajay-rai-put-under-house-arrest-ahead-of-ayodhya-visit\/articleshow\/132078840.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajay Rai put under house arrest ahead of Ayodhya visit (Image\/PTI) NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday alleged that its Uttar Pradesh unit chief Ajay Rai was placed under house arrest a day before a high-level party delegation was scheduled to visit Ayodhya and offer prayers at the Ram Temple.The party claimed the action was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}