As Ayodhya returns to the centre of Uttar Pradesh's political discourse, a fiery face-off between Congress leader Sanjay Jha and BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari has laid bare the battle over faith, identity and electoral politics. While Jha argued that the BJP does not have exclusive ownership of Hinduism and claimed Ayodhya's 2024 verdict exposed the limits of religious polarisation, Bhandari dismissed the Opposition's outreach as "election-time Hindutva" and challenged Akhilesh Yadav to.