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Bharatiya Janata Party · 2019
Claim
Accurate
Delivery
Delivered
Delivered inside the term. The Supreme Court decided the title suits on 9 November 2019, seven months into it, and directed the central government to set up a trust within three months whose powers would include "the construction of a temple" — and, simultaneously, to hand five acres to the Sunni Central Waqf Board. The trust was constituted in February 2020 and the temple consecrated on 22 January 2024, four months before the term ended. The manifesto's word was "expeditious", and on the record it was.
“We reiterate our stand on Ram Mandir. We will explore all possibilities within the framework of the Constitution and all necessary efforts to facilitate the expeditious construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.”No CAG performance audit published
No CAG performance audit covering this scheme has been published. The absence of an audit is not evidence that the claim is either accurate or inaccurate.
This was settled by judicial decision and executed by a trust constituted under a statutory scheme, not by a government spending programme, so there is no audit to cite. The primary record is the judgment.
No audit period to plot — no CAG performance audit covering this scheme has been published.
Temple consecrated 22 January 2024; trust constituted February 2020 under the Court's direction
Construction of the wider temple complex continued after the consecration.
M Siddiq (D) Thr Lrs v. Mahant Suresh Das & Ors — Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal Nos. 10866-10867 of 2010, judgment of 9 November 2019
The 2019 Sankalp Patra sharpens the 2014 formulation with one word. Where the earlier manifesto promised to "facilitate the construction", this one promises "all necessary efforts to facilitate the expeditious construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya" — still within the framework of the Constitution, but now with a commitment about speed.
Speed is therefore the thing to check, and the record is unusually clean. Seven months into the term, on 9 November 2019, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court decided the Ayodhya title suits. Part Q of its order gave the government a deadline of its own: "The Central Government shall, within a period of three months from the date of this judgment, formulate a scheme pursuant to the powers vested in it under Sections 6 and 7 of the Acquisition of Certain Area at Ayodhya Act 1993. The scheme shall envisage the setting up of a trust with a Board of Trustees or any other appropriate body under Section 6." The powers to be given to those trustees expressly included "the construction of a temple".
The judgment also directed a simultaneous act, which is part of the same order and belongs in the same record: five acres to be handed to the Sunni Central Waqf Board at the same time as the disputed property passed to the trust.
The government met the Court's three-month deadline. The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust was constituted in February 2020, the disputed property vested in it, and the temple was consecrated on 22 January 2024 — four months before the term ended. Construction of the wider complex continued after that date.
One clarification on causation, because it matters to how the promise reads. The decisive act was the Supreme Court's, not the government's; what the government undertook, and did, was the facilitation the manifesto described — framing the scheme, constituting the trust, transferring possession, and allotting the alternative land the same order required. That is the promise as written, and it was kept within the term. Our verdict is accurate.
BJP Sankalp Patra 2019 — Lok Sabha election manifesto
“Through this Sankalp Patra, you would get a glimpse of the challenges of the yesteryears, the indomitable efforts made by 130 crore Indians to overcome those challenges and our collective vision for the future… There are two commitments that I am extremely passionate about — doubling of farmer income and housing for all, by the year 2022.”
M Siddiq (D) Thr Lrs v. Mahant Suresh Das & Ors — Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal Nos. 10866-10867 of 2010, judgment of 9 November 2019
“The Central Government shall, within a period of three months from the date of this judgment, formulate a scheme pursuant to the powers vested in it under Sections 6 and 7 of the Acquisition of Certain Area at Ayodhya Act 1993. The scheme shall envisage the setting up of a trust with a Board of Trustees or any other appropriate body under Section 6… the powers of the trustees including the construction of a temple… Simultaneously, with the handing over of the disputed property to the Trust or body under clause 2 above, a suitable plot of land admeasuring 5 acres shall be handed over to the Sunni Central Waqf Board.”