 "PM Narendra Modi greets BJP leaders as he arrives to address an election rally for the Lok Sabha polls, at Bharwari in Kaushambi district on Wednesday Photo: PTI")
As the Modi wave gained steam in the run-up to the 2014 general elections, the Ram mandir movement became a poll plank in Ayodhya. “My government will build the temple,” Narendra Modi, then BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, had thundered from the stage, designed in the model of a proposed Ram temple, at an election rally.
Five years on, as Modi, who is seeking a second term as the prime minister, returned to Ambedkar Nagar, just 25 km from the Ram Janmabhoomi site, the script had changed. The stage was hardly any different from those that host Modi rallies in other parts
