India, Jan. 8 -- A political slugfest erupted on Wednesday on the Somnath temple issue with the BJP and Congress trading charges. While the former claimed that then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was not in favour of rebuilding the temple, the latter said the BJP must answer why President Droupadi Murmu was not invited to attend the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

The BJP alleged that while the Somnath temple was plundered by Mahmud of Ghazni and Alauddin Khilji in the past in independent India, the country's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, hated Lord Somnath the most.

In a series of social media posts, BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi alleged that Nehru did not want the Somnath temple rebuilt after Indepe...