Lucknow. There are assembly elections in UP after a few months. Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav is trying his best to win these elections. Akhilesh Yadav is preparing to contest the UP assembly elections by giving the slogan of Backward, Dalit and Minority i.e. PDA. Now his close SP leader and former UP minister Tej Narayan Pandey alias Pawan Pandey has told that Akhilesh Yadav will go to Ayodhya on December 12 and visit Ramlala and Hanumangarhi. Till now, Akhilesh Yadav has faced questions many times for not visiting the Ram temple in Ayodhya. BJP has also been attacking him in this matter.
Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh: Tej Narayan Pandey, the Samajwadi Party candidate for the Ayodhya assembly constituency, says, “Honorable National President will offer prayers with his family at Hanumangarhi in Ayodhya on December 12th, and will also offer prayers at the temple of Lord Shri Ram. He will seek the blessings of the revered saints and mahants, partake in prasad, and interact with his worker colleagues. All of us residents of Ayodhya will extend a heartfelt welcome, greetings, and reverence to him”
— IANS (@ians_india) November 7, 2026
Pawan Pandey told the media that along with Akhilesh Yadav, his MP wife Dimple Yadav and son and daughter will also go to Ayodhya. According to Pawan Pandey, Akhilesh Yadav will spend the entire day in Ayodhya on 12th December. This will be his religious tour. The SP leader said that in Ayodhya, Akhilesh Yadav will visit different monasteries and meet sages and saints and take blessings. Akhilesh Yadav also intends to receive Prasad with the saints. First of all he will go to Hanumangarhi and do darshan and worship. After which we will have darshan of Ramlala in Ram temple.
Let us tell you that Akhilesh Yadav was also invited by the Trust on the occasion of inauguration of Ram temple in Ayodhya. After receiving the invitation, Akhilesh Yadav had written a letter to the then General Secretary of Ram Mandir Trust, Champat Rai. Akhilesh Yadav had written in the letter thanking him for the invitation that after the consecration of the Ram temple, he would come to Ayodhya with his family to see Ramlala. Akhilesh Yadav had wished for the safe recovery of life and dignity in the Ram temple. Before receiving the invitation, Akhilesh Yadav had also said that devotion and faith say that only when God calls, one goes for darshan. The special thing is that Akhilesh Yadav was the first to raise the incident of donation theft in Ram temple. Since then he has been attacking BJP and Sangh Parivar on this issue.