Reports about Prime Minister participating in foundation-stone laying-ceremony of Ram Janmbhoomi Temple at Ayodhya (UP) on 05.08.2020 are welcome. Such participation should ideally make present owners of Congress party also in capacity of their being legal and political heirs of first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru to formally lodge protest in name of Congress-styled secularism of Nehru-Gandhi family against participation of Narender Modi in a programme relating to construction of much-awaited Hindu Temple at birth-place of Lord Rama.
It may be recalled that Nehru desired that the then (first) President of India Dr Rajendra Prasad should not participate in inauguration of Somnath Temple in Junagarh (Gujarat) because according to Nehru, it might not fit in secular-theory of Nehru-Gandhi. However bold Dr Rajendra Prasad rightly turned down idea of Nehru, feeling proud to be a Hindu. It is beyond understanding how and why Nehru-Gandhi theory considered role of any public-dignitary in an Hindu event doubted to dent secularism.
-MADHU AGRAWAL