Ram aaye toh insaaf aaya: Abhishek Banerjee mocks BJP's loss in Ayodhya

Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and newly elected Diamond Harbour MP, Abhishek Banerjee, criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday following its loss in Ayodhya during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, despite the inauguration of the Ram Mandir earlier this year. Banerjee remarked that "Lord Ram came and brought justice with him."

Speaking to reporters in Kolkata, Banerjee questioned the BJP's actions regarding the Pran Pratishtha ceremony of Lord Ram. He said, “This shows on what level the people's outrage is against the BJP. I don't want to comment on the margin much, but the Ram Mandir that you made an agenda and went to every citizen from Kashmir to Kanyakumari saying, ‘We made the Ram mandir and BJP did Ram's pratishtha’. How can a human carry out god's pratishtha? Can anyone do it? Do I have the capability to perform god's pratishtha? This shows that where they performed Ram Mandir's pratishtha [in Ayodhya], they lost from the same constituency. I would just say, Prabhu Ram aye toh insaaf aya.”

Banerjee secured a decisive victory in the Diamond Harbour constituency with a lead of 7.10 lakh votes on Tuesday.

In the Faizabad constituency, where the temple city of Ayodhya is located, the BJP's MP Lallu Singh lost to the Samajwadi Party's prominent Dalit leader, Awadhesh Prasad.