Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Wednesday said that when Hindus were not unsafe even during the Mughals how can the community be unsafe when both the Prime Minister and the President of the country belong to it.  

"Some leaders go to America and say that the Hindu religion is in danger. When Hindus were not in danger for 500 years in Mughal period how can it be in danger when both Prime Minister and President are Hindu. If the religion is in danger even when they are in the power, then they are imposters," Singh said.

Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said that the saffron party only wants to make create a controversy around the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya and even Ram would not want that a temple is built at a disputed site.

"This is strange that the issue of construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya comes up only during elections. There is no objection over the construction of Ram temple, we all want it but even Lor Ram does not want that the temple should come up at a disputed site," the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister said ahead of the Assembly polls in the state.

"This is also surprising that they would follow the court's decision. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister says it would be built when Lor Ram wants it and the leadership behind this government asks for an ordinance. They only want to make the issue of Ram Temple a dispute," the senior Congress leader said on Wednesday.

The Congress is attempting to snatch the Madhya Pradesh's control from the BJP which has been ruling the state since 2003. The state will go to polls on November 28 to elect 230 members of the legislative assembly. The counting of votes will be conducted on December 11.

His remarks came on the day when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath alleged that the Congress is the biggest obstacle in the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Speaking an election rally in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district, Adityanath said he renamed Faizabad to Ayodhya so that people across the world would know the place by the name of Lord Ram.

"Chhattisgarh is the place of the family of Lord Ram's mother. We have renamed a janpad (district) of UP to Ayodhya so that people from across the country and world know the place by the name of Lord Ram," he said.

"Would this (renaming) have been possible had Congress been in power? Would it have been possible to hold a Dipotsav programme in Ayodhya during Diwali, if Congress had been in power?" the BJP leader asked.

"Had Congress government been in power in Chhattisgarh, would it have been possible to build a magnificent Ram temple in Raipur," he added, referring to a prominent temple in the state capital.

Adityanath's deputy Dinesh Sharma had on Monday said that the Ram temple in Ayodhya will be built "when Lord Ram wants it".