AKHILESH JOINS THE TEMPLE RUN

If you can’t beat them, join them. At his ancestral home in Etawah, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has commissioned a Rs 50 crore Kedareshwar Mahadev Temple, said to be a replica of the famed Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand.

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The complex already houses a child idol of Lord Ram, installed on Ramnavami, with the formal inauguration of the main temple set for the Sawan Shivaratri this August. On the face of it, the move blends faith and personal legacy. Politically, for a leader often boxed into a ‘pro-Muslim’ image, the temple offers a visible counter, what some SP watchers called a “calibrated step into the BJP’s cultural terrain...but without the loud rhetoric”. The timing is just right. Uttar Pradesh has an assembly election coming up in 2027, and in a state where religion and politics often overlap, even a temple at his home base can carry a larger message.

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