The Modi government is tying itself up in knots, trying to both claim credit for delivering on the Ram Janmabhoomi movement while also projecting distance from the controversies piling up around the temple’s management. Questions over construction management and land transactions have been followed by the trust’s biggest scandal yet. This July, allegations emerged that donations made by devotees to the temple had been systematically embezzled to the tune of Rs 7 crore. A special investigation team constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government found some seventy suspicious incidents on CCTV footage, of counting staff concealing wads of cash, alongside failures as basic as an absence of frisking at the entry and exit points. Dhirendra K Jha and Amrita Singh (@singhamritaa) report: caravanmagazine.in/politics/… #rammandirtrust