Ram Mandir is Not Poll Issue: BJP UP Chief Keshav Prasad Maurya

Prasad also denied that Amit Shah identified the Samajwadi Party as their main competitor in the 2017 UP elections

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uttar Pradesh unit chief Keshav Prasad Maurya has said that his party does not have plans to focus on the Ram Temple issue in the upcoming 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls. He said this while speaking to The Hindu in an interview.

We want a bhavya (grand) Ram Lalla temple in Ayodhya but it is not a political or electoral issue for us. It is an article of faith. We will ask for votes on development not on the name of Ram Mandir.

Keshav Prasad Maurya