Daily hearings at a special CBI court in Lucknow on a case relating to the 1992 demolition of the mosque has put the focus on the temple -- on the back burner for several years -- and party leaders are elated.
BJP leaders are convinced the issue will help the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, as the momentum builds up on the building of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
The BJP, which stormed to power in UP bagging 325 out of 403 assembly seats in March this year, believes that the temple issue will have the people's support.
"Every person wants a Ram Temple to be constructed in Ayodhya. And whenever the courts give a decision on any issue (related to the temple), there is some 'garmaahat' (galvanisation)," BJP national vice-president and Rajya Sabha MP Prabhat Jha said.
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The apex court's April 19 directive that the special court "complete the trial and deliver the judgment within a period of two years" from the date of the judgment may overlap with the holding of the 2019 general election, when the temple plank is likely to emerge as an emotive issue.
The temple, UP BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi said, would "certainly have a bearing" on the Lok Sabha polls.
State leaders have already upped the ante.
"We know that the Ram Temple in Ayodhya will be built eventually," BJP national vice-president and Rajya Sabha MP Prabhat Jha stressed. "It is a national issue, an issue which is directly linked to crores of countrymen," he said.
On May 31 -- a day after the criminal conspiracy charge was framed against the BJP leaders and others in Lucknow -- UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath prayed at the makeshift Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
Maurya, too, added that the "best possible way" to resolve the issue would be through "mutual understanding and negotiations".
A day after Adityanath's Ayodhya visit, UP minister Shrikant Sharma said in Ballia a Ram Temple already existed in Ayodhya and all that it needed was a "grand" look.
"The Ram Temple is there in Ayodhya and will remain there. Now it has to be given a grand look," he said.
On May 9, the Uttar Pradesh government endorsed the setting up of two new municipal corporations for Ayodhya- Faizabad and Mathura-Vrindavan. The decision was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Adityanath.
In Delhi, plans are afoot for the construction of a Ram- Ramayana museum -- to be located about six kilometres from the disputed Ram Temple site - which, a concept note states, will be like a "grand temple".