₹2 crore to ₹18 crore in minutes? AAP, SP question Ram temple land purchase in Ayodhya

SP and AAP have alleged that a piece of land in UP's Ayodhya was sold to two property dealers for Rs 2 crore minutes before the same land was bought by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust for Rs 18.5 crore.

A controversy has erupted over the purchase of a piece of land by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra in Ayodhya in March. The central government constituted the trust in February 2020 to oversee the construction of the proposed Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya. 7:10 PM 2 7:15 PM 18.55.50 #__ pic.twitter.com/kR6bf6uRlj In a press conference on Sunday, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former UP Minister Pawan Pandey sought a CBI probe into this land purchase by the trust. Similar allegations were levelled by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh during a separate press conference. The SP and AAP leaders claimed that two real estate dealers purchased 1.208 hectares of land in Ayodhya for Rs 2 crore on March 18. Within "10 minutes of the purchase", alleged Pandey, the same land was sold to the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra for Rs 18.5 crore.