Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh expressed reservations on Friday about the newly sculpted Ram Lalla idol set to be placed in Ayodhya's Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, stating that it does not resemble a child. Singh questioned the necessity for a second idol and emphasized that, according to his belief, the idol should be in the child form, seated in the lap of Mother Kaushalya, which the current idol lacks.
“I have been saying this from the beginning, where is the idol of Ram Lalla whose idol was controversial and destroyed? What was the need for the second statue? Our Guru Late Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Ji Maharaj of Dwarka and Joshimath had also suggested that the idol of Lord Ram in the Ram Janmabhoomi temple should be in the form of a child and should be in the lap of Mother Kaushalya. But the idol that is being consecrated does not look like a child,” the Congress leader said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).