BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan alleged on Tuesday that the Congress Government in Madhya Pradesh was "checking the facts" instead of executing his proposal to build a temple to Sita at Divurumpola in Sri Lanka.
The Government retorted that it was an empty promise made by the former Chief Minister as nothing was formalised.
"The entire country and the world know that Sita was kept in Ashok Vatika in Sri Lanka, where she had to go through 'Agni Pariksha' (ordeal by fire). When I visited Sri Lanka, it occurred to me that a grand temple should be built at this site. I am surprised that this Kamal Nath government is talking about checking the facts," Chouhan tweeted in Hindi.
In a video tagged with the tweet, the former chief minister claimed that necessary approvals had been secured for the temple from the Sri Lankan government as well as the Centre.