Ram Temple Trust Reacts After Akhilesh Yadav's "Missing Funds" Comment

[00:00:01]All right, some latest news coming in.

[00:00:03]Yogi government has formed a three-member SIT [music] and this is to probe the alleged Ram Temple donation scam. In the alleged Ram Temple donation scam case, the Yogi government has [music] constituted a three-member special investigation team. Two IAS officers, one IPS [music] officer has been appointed as the member of the SIT.

[00:00:23]Now, this SIT team has been directed to submit its preliminary investigation [music] report within 7 days and final report within 15 days.

[00:00:34]My colleague Ranvir [music] Singh joining us from live from Lucknow to give us more perspective on the story.

[00:00:38]Ranvir, there were multiple allegations being made. The opposition parties had spoken on this issue. Give us more perspective. [music] >> Actually, in Ram Temple, the alleged disappearance of donations at the Ram Temple was made by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav few days back and after his allegations, a political debate has been started in Uttar Pradesh politics. So, everyone was targeting Bharatiya Janata Party as well as Yogi Adityanath government. While BJP said that it's just a matter of trust, we don't have to do anything.

[00:01:13]>> [music] >> Now, Ram Mandir Trust requested CM Yogi Adityanath to form a SIT so that these allegations can be investigated in a proper manner and in afternoon, the trust requested CM Yogi Adityanath and by evening, Yogi Adityanath government formed three members SIT to investigate the allegations over disappearance of donations at the Ram Temple. So, Divisional Commissioner Lucknow Vijay Vishwas Pant, IG Range Lucknow as well as Special Secretary Finance will be the three members who will investigate this donation alleged donation fraud and they will submit the preliminary report within 7 days and final report within 15 days to the government. So, after this war of word between Samajwadi Party, BJP, trust as well as the opposition versus government may stop after the report that is is there any embezzlement in the donations of Ram Temple or this is just an allegation of fake allegation. So, everything will be clear when the SIT report will come.

[00:02:19]>> All right, thank you so much for putting all of that into perspective. We'll of course keep coming back to you for more on the story. [music]