PM Modi to attend the Inauguration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on January 22, 2024
“I feel very blessed. It is my good fortune that in my lifetime, I will witness this historic occasion,” PM Modi said in a post on X.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ event at Ayodhya’s Ram temple on January 22. Lord Ram’s idol will be placed inside the temple on this day. Ahead of his visit to Ayodhya, Muslims have requested the Prime Minister to lay the foundation stone of the new Babri Masjid.
In the 2019 landmark Supreme Court ruling in the Ayodhya land dispute, the judgment said that the Ram Mandir would be constructed at the 2.77 acres disputed site and Muslims would be given an alternate 5-acre land in Dhannipur for the construction of Babri Masjid.
The trust plans to invite over 4,000 Hindu religious leaders from 136 Sanatana traditions for the consecration ceremony. In addition to that, 25,000 dignitaries will also participate in the event.
The temple — which is being built after the Supreme Court, in its judgment in 2019, maintained that the Muslim community was wrongfully deprived of their 450-year-old mosque, but goes on to reject their claim for the exclusive title and possession of the land in Ayodhya — will spread in 71 acres of land. The area will have Ram Mandir on 2.77 acres which is divided into six parts, the main sanctum sanctorum (garbh greh) and five pavilions – gun mandap, rang mandap, nritya mandap, kirtan mandap and prarthna mandap. The temple will be 161-foot-high and will have three floors, each 19.5 feet.
The complex of Ram temple will also have temples of Shiva, goddess Annapurna and Bhagwati, Ganesha, Hanuman and Surya (sun). Temples of mythological saints like Valmiki, Vashisth, Viswamitra, Jatayu and Sabri are also planned in addition to other facilities like yagya/ anusthan mandap, a rest house for religious leaders and an administrative building etc.
