Overview
- Speaking at the Ram Janaki temple in Barabanki on February 10, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister said the 'Day of Judgment will never come' and told 'dreamers' to live by India’s laws.
- He cautioned that law-breakers would 'go straight to hell' and described hopes of reviving the structure as an illusion that would never materialise.
- He framed the statement within the BJP’s Ayodhya narrative, asserting the party fulfilled its pledge to build the Ram temple and citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flag hoisting at the shrine.
- The comments followed suspended TMC leader Humayun Kabir’s push for a Babri-model mosque in Murshidabad, where a foundation stone was laid on December 6, 2025, and where construction was reported to begin on February 11.
- Right-wing outfits announced plans to mobilise against the Murshidabad project, and the Samajwadi Party criticized Adityanath’s remarks as 'frustration politics' tied to electoral calculations.