Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar has received an invitation to be part of the pran pratishtha ceremony of Ram Temple in Ayodhya to be held on January 22. However, Sharad Pawar won't attend the ceremony but will visit Ayodhya later.
In a letter to General Secretary of Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Champat Rai. Pawar wrote, "After the pran pratistha ceremony is completed on January 22, I will freely take out time and come for darshan and by then the construction work of Ram temple will also be completed."
"Maryada Purshottam Shri Ram is a symbol of faith and devotion. Ram bhakts will be attending the ceremony in large numbers through which the happiness will reach me. After January 22, the darshan of Ram Lalla will be easy. I am planning to visit Ayodhya and will also offer prayers to Ram Lalla. By that time, the temple construction will also be complete, he said in the letter.
The BJP has been targeting the Congress and other constituents of the INDIA opposition bloc that are keeping away from the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22. Pawar's NCP is a member of the grouping. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has alleged that the Ram temple event has been made into a Narendra Modi and RSS-BJP function with an election flavour.
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