Ayodhya Discontent: BJP's Surprising Defeat in the Shadow of Ram Mandir Consecration
The Ram mandir issue was the BJP바카라™s calling card for more than three decades. So when it fulfilled its promise of building a temple in Ayodhya바카라”whose consecration took place earlier this year in January, just a few months before the Lok Sabha elections바카라”it seemed like a major victory for the saffron party. But the election result has produced a major twist, where the BJP lost in Ayodhya by over 50,000 votes. In January 2024, two weeks before the Ram mandir consecration, Outlook바카라™s Tanul Thakur visited the temple town and found that, despite all the fervour surrounding the temple, disenchantment wasn바카라™t too far from the perceived 바카라˜development바카라™.
