Samajwadi Party MPs on Thursday donated around ₹ 2,15,490 and two silver coins, collected during their recent protest in Parliament, at the historic Hanuman temple at Connaught Place in New Delhi. The amount was contributed by Members of Parliament from various parties over the past few days of the Monsoon Session. The MPs offered the money and coins to the deity and obtained a receipt for the donation. During the Monsoon Session, opposition parties demanded a debate on the alleged theft of donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
Political Context
Yadav demanded a Special Investigation Team led by a sitting judge. This issue has reached the masses, and people are deeply hurt. Earlier reporting noted: NDA, INDIA bloc MPs face-off outside Parliament over Jharkhand protest, Ram temple donation issues Ruling NDA and Opposition INDIA bloc MPs came face-to-face near Parliament’s Makar Dwar on Thursday (August 13, 2026) — with security personnel forming a cordon between them — as they staged protests and raised counter-slogans over police action on job aspirants in Jharkhand and issues surrounding the alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Earlier reporting noted: Parliament Monsoon Session Day 19 LIVE
Akshay Yadav, the SP MP from Firozabad, said the donation box was originally brought to the Parliament complex as a symbol of protest against the alleged theft of contributions made for the Ram temple. “People have faith, so they started putting donations into it when they saw it,” he said. “BJP members kept trying to conceal this issue; the theft was exposed only after Samajwadi Party national president and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav brought the matter to light,” she remarked. Earlier reporting noted: While NDA MPs demanded answers from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and alleged that he was “running away” from a debate on student protests across the country, INDIA bloc MPs demanded accountability from Union Home Minister Amit Shah over alleged police excesses during the July 20 student protests over paper leaks.
Speaking to the media in Delhi on Thursday, Dimple Yadav, SP MP from Mainpuri, said, “Offerings made at the Lord Ram temple in Ayodhya have been stolen, and a land scam has taken place there.
