Stealing from the gods: India’s Ram Temple hit by corruption scandal ^32.6%

Al Jazeera - By Yashraj Sharma, Mohammad Sartaj Alam - 6/29/2026, 7:04 AM

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New Delhi, India – Brajesh Kumar climbs three floors every evening to sit in solitude on the rooftop terrace of his house overlooking the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh. Over decades, the 65-year-old has seen the once-sleepy town metamorphose into the biggest flashpoint of the Hindu majoritarian movement,... more