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NEW DELHI: Congress has rejected Rajnath Singh's assertion that "Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to physique Babri Masjid utilizing nationalist funds, and it was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who opposed it".
The expansive aged enactment accused the defence curate of propagating a "lie", and said they would not fto "the bequest of Nehru oregon Patel to beryllium distorted by Godse’s followers.""There is zero archival oregon documentary grounds to enactment it. Nehruji explicitly opposed utilizing authorities wealth for spiritual places — including the reconstruction of Temple. He insisted it should beryllium funded done nationalist contributions, not the state," Congress MP Manickam Tagore said.Invoking the archetypal premier minister's absorption to the usage of nationalist funds for rebuilding the Somnath Temple, Tagore said, "If Nehruji refused nationalist funds adjacent for Somnath — a awesome revered by millions — wherefore would helium suggest spending payer wealth connected Babri? The assertion collapses nether basal logic and humanities record.""Rajnath ji ‘s statements aren’t astir history. They’re astir authorities — rewriting the past to disagreement the present.
The BJP’s strategy is simple: insult our founders, invent stories, substance polarisation. We volition not let the bequest of Nehru oregon Patel to beryllium distorted by Godse’s followers," helium said.

Here's what Rajnath said
The defence curate connected Tuesday charged astatine the archetypal premier curate saying that helium "spoke astir spending authorities funds connected the Babri Masjid issue" and that "Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel opposed it."Addressing the 'Sardar Sabha' successful Vadodara, helium said, "At that time, helium did not let the Babri Masjid to beryllium built with authorities money. Nehru ji raised the question of reconstruction of the Somnath Temple... Sardar clarified that the Somnath Temple lawsuit was different; the nationalist had donated Rs. 30 lakh there, a spot had been formed, and not adjacent a azygous penny of authorities wealth was used.""The Ram Mandir successful Ayodhya has not been funded by authorities money. The full outgo has been borne by the radical of this country," helium added.
