Faith weaponised, then allegedly looted — that is the charge Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has levelled at the Bharatiya Janata Party in a blistering post on Thursday, 30 July 2026, targeting the financial management of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust in Ayodhya.

Yadav's post, written in Hindi, frames the allegations as nothing short of a sacred betrayal — 'आस्था के साथ विश्वासघात का महापाप' ('the mortal sin of betraying faith') — and lists more than a dozen specific charges against the BJP and its allies in the trust's administration.

A twelve-point charge sheet against the Trust

The Samajwadi Party chief's accusations span financial, procedural, and evidentiary domains. He alleges that BJP-linked individuals stole from donation boxes (daan-paatra), conducted large-scale irregularities in anonymous donations, and either withheld official receipts or issued forged ones in their place.

On land, Yadav's charge is pointed: that BJP-affiliated persons bought Ayodhya land at throwaway prices and then sold it to the temple trust at prices twenty times higher, siphoning crores from the trust's religious fund (dharm-khaata). He further alleges that profits from these land deals were distributed among insiders.

The post also accuses the trust's administration of removing honest officials who raised objections, planting loyalists in key positions, failing to log recovered stolen amounts, and misleading investigators by claiming nothing 'noteworthy' was found. Most seriously, Yadav alleges that CCTV recordings and other evidence were destroyed, that those under investigation were allowed to conduct the investigation themselves, and that senior trust officials received clean chits without any accountability being fixed. He ends with the claim that temple funds and precious metals were packed into sacks and moved elsewhere.

Why Yadav calls it a duty to raise this in Parliament

Yadav's framing is deliberate: he does not present the allegations merely as political criticism but as a moral and civic obligation — 'लोक-संसद तक पहुँचाना हम सब का धर्म सम्मत कर्तव्य है' ('it is the religiously sanctioned duty of all of us to bring the issue of looting public money to Parliament'). The closing line is a direct political dart: 'जो भाजपा का साथी, वो रामघाती-महापापी' — 'Whoever is BJP's ally is a destroyer of Ram and a great sinner.'

The Ayodhya Trust and the opposition's running audit

The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust was constituted by the central government in February 2020, following the Supreme Court of India's landmark 2019 verdict resolving the decades-long Ayodhya title dispute. The trust oversees construction and management of the Ram temple, which was consecrated in 2024 in a ceremony that drew national attention.

Since the trust's formation, opposition parties — led prominently by the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh — have repeatedly raised questions about land transactions and financial oversight. The BJP and the trust have not yet issued a formal response to this specific post. Any parliamentary escalation would likely surface during the next session of Lok Sabha, where Yadav sits as an MP.

The allegations in the post — including specifics on CCTV evidence and ongoing probes — have not been independently corroborated from public records, and the trust and BJP have not confirmed or denied them.

If even a fraction of these charges finds traction in Parliament, the Ram temple trust's governance could become the defining accountability flashpoint of the monsoon session.