Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi attending Bhimu Pujan of the Ram temple, in official capacity, in Ayodhya will amount to a violation of constitutional oath.
Taking to Twitter, Owaisi said, "Attending Bhumi Pujan in official capacity will be a violation of @PMOIndia‘s constitutional oath. Secularism is part of the Basic Structure of Constitution."
"We can’t forget that for over 400 years Babri stood in Ayodhya & it was demolished by a criminal mob in 1992," he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Ayodhya on August 5 to lay the foundation of Ram temple.
Read:PM Modi to lay foundation stone of Ram temple on Aug 5
According to the tentative programme, a silver slab weighing nearly 40 kg will be placed in the sanctum sanctorum of the proposed Lord Ram temple during the foundation laying ceremony by the PM.
The religious rituals would be presided over by the priests from Varanasi. The foundation of the temple is scheduled to be laid around 12.13 pm, considered as the auspicious time based on astronomical calculations by the Hindu priests and seers.
The temple project will span about 85,000 sq ft, according to the new design prepared by chief architect Sompura brothers, which will rank it among the largest Hindu temples in the world. It will have the capacity to accommodate 50,000 devotees at a time.
