{"id":35284,"date":"2026-07-14T17:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/will-join-uddhavs-ram-raksha-andolan-says-fadnavis-but-with-a-question-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:37:43","slug":"will-join-uddhavs-ram-raksha-andolan-says-fadnavis-but-with-a-question-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/will-join-uddhavs-ram-raksha-andolan-says-fadnavis-but-with-a-question-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Will join Uddhav&#8217;s Ram Raksha Andolan,&#8217; says Fadnavis, but with a question | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\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-132389712,imgsize-697268,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ani.jpg\" alt=\"'Will join Uddhav's Ram Raksha Andolan,' says Fadnavis, but with a question\" title=\"'Will join Uddhav's Ram Raksha Andolan,' says Fadnavis, but with a question\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"'Will join Uddhav's Ram Raksha Andolan,' says Fadnavis, but with a question\">&#8216;Will join Uddhav&#8217;s Ram Raksha Andolan,&#8217; says Fadnavis, but with a question<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maharashtra chief minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/devendra-fadnavis\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Devendra Fadnavis<\/a> on Tuesday questioned Shiv Sena (UBT) chief <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/uddhav-thackeray\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Uddhav Thackeray<\/a>&#8216;s proposed &#8220;Ram Raksha Andolan&#8221;, asking whether Thackeray knew the &#8220;Ram Raksha&#8221; stotra and understood its meaning.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>&#8220;He is organising a &#8216;Ram Raksha Andolan,&#8217; but does he actually have any knowledge about &#8216;Ram Raksha&#8217;? I will certainly join his movement and recite the &#8216;Ram Raksha&#8217; [stotra] as well, but my question remains: what kind of unique movement is this, led by someone who does not even know &#8216;Ram Raksha&#8217; or understand what it entails?&#8221; Fadnavis said, as cited by ANI. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Earlier this month, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray criticised BJP over the alleged Ram Temple donation embezzlement case, accusing the party of using the issue for political purposes and announcing a statewide &#8220;Ram Raksha Andolan&#8221; from July 5.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Thackeray had held a meeting with Shiv Sena (UBT) MLAs and MLCs at his residence, Matoshri, in Mumbai&#8217;s Bandra area.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>He told those attending the meeting that the agitation should be expanded to the district level, including cities such as Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Ratnagiri.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>The alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple came to light on June 7. An FIR was registered on June 25 based on a preliminary report submitted by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Eight people associated with the temple&#8217;s donation-counting process have been arrested so far, and the investigation is underway. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>The case has led to a political confrontation in Uttar Pradesh, with the ruling BJP and Opposition parties accusing each other over the handling of the temple&#8217;s finances as the SIT probe continues.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/will-join-uddhavs-ram-raksha-andolan-says-fadnavis-but-with-a-question\/articleshow\/132389673.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Will join Uddhav&#8217;s Ram Raksha Andolan,&#8217; says Fadnavis, but with a question Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday questioned Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray&#8216;s proposed &#8220;Ram Raksha Andolan&#8221;, asking whether Thackeray knew the &#8220;Ram Raksha&#8221; stotra and understood its meaning.&#8220;He is organising a &#8216;Ram Raksha Andolan,&#8217; but does he actually have any knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35284","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\/35284","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=35284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}