‘Ram Lalla idol being consecrated does not look like a child’: Digvijaya Singh stokes row on Ayodhya Mandir
India TV NewsRam Mandir: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday stoked a fresh controversy with his remarks over the new idol of Ram Lalla to be seated in the sanctum sanctorum of the grand temple being constructed in Ayodhya, and said that “it does not look like a child”. This comes after the 51-inch Ram Lalla idol, sculpted by Mysuru-based artist Arun Yogiraj, was placed in the ‘Garbh Griha’ during the placement ceremony on Thursday, the pictures of which were shared by media in-charge of Vishwa Hindu Parishad Sharad Sharma. Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha The idol, to be unveiled on January 22 during the inauguration of Ram Mandir at a historic consecration ceremony, weighs 1.5 tonnes and portrays Lord Ram as a five-year-old child standing on a lotus, also crafted from the same stone. In a post on X, Singh said that the Congress never opposed the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya but asked to wait till the court's decision.