Prime Minister Narendra Modi, U.P. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat during the flag ceremony at Ayodhya Ram temple on November 25, 2025.
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A day after Pakistan’s Foreign Office expressed “deep concern” over the raising of a religious flag on the shikhara (spire) at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the Ministry of External Affairs rejected Islamabad’s remarks with “contempt” and said Pakistan should look into its own record of “bigotry” and “repression”.
“We have seen the reported remarks and reject them with the contempt that they deserve. Rather than delivering hypocritical homilies, Pakistan would do better to turn its gaze inwards and focus on its own abysmal human rights record,” the Official Spokesperson of the MEA, Randhir Jaiswal, said on Wednesday (November 26, 2025).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had raised the flag (dharmadhwaja) at the Ayodhya Ram Temple on Tuesday (November 25, 2025), which marked the final step in the construction of the Ram Temple.
Mr. Jaiswal said, “Pakistan has no moral standing to lecture others” as it has a “deeply stained record of bigotry, repression and systemic mistreatment of its minorities.”
On Tuesday (November 25), the Pakistan government had said the flag-raising event in Ayodhya “reflected a broader pattern of pressure on religious minorities in India and deliberate attempt at eroding Muslim cultural and religious heritage under the influence of majoritarian Hindutva ideology.”
Published – November 26, 2025 07:44 pm IST
