New Delhi: Hindus are running out of patience on the Ram temple issue, Union minister Giriraj Singh said on Monday.

“Shri Ram is the cornerstone of the faith of the Hindus,” the minister of state for micro, small and medium enterprises said.

The union minister’s comments come on a day a three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said an “appropriate bench” will decide in January next year the future course of hearing on the appeals filed against the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Ayodhya land dispute case.