Narendra Modi said of the Ram temple issue, "very important and historical subject for the country"

In November 2019 India's Supreme Court resolved a long-running Ayodhya land dispute in favor of Hindu claimants, five months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term began. The ruling came after the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid on the same site. The court ordered the central government to create a trust to build a Ram temple. On 5 February 2020 Modi announced that trust, the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, in Parliament, framing the subject as a matter of national importance. Its 15 members include Ayodhya's district official, central and Uttar Pradesh government representatives, and monastic figures; only practising Hindus may serve. According to the report, some trustees had long championed the temple campaign, and the arrangement gave the Sangh a custodial role in the project.