Ram Mandir, consecration celebrated across India and Indians abroad

New Delhi: yodha Ram Mandir, consecration will be celebrated across India and Indians abroad will mark the occasion with prayers at their local temples. 

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The building of the temple started after the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment in 2019, awarded the disputed land for a temple and asked that Muslims be given an alternate plot for a mosque. The matter, which went to court shortly after Independence, had escalated after hundreds of karsevaks razed a 16th century mosque on the site, believing it was built over a temple marking the birthplace of Lord Ram.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached the Ram Temple in Ayodhya - a 50-year-project of the BJP and one realised less than three months before the general election - and will shortly lead the 'pran pratishtha', or consecration, ceremony.

Live visuals of the consecration showed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat sitting next to the PM. The RSS, or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is the ideological mentor of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, and visuals of the two next to each other have been seen as acknowledgement that the Ram Temple project is a joint BJP-RSS project.

Shortly before the ceremony Mr Modi said it is a "great pleasure" to be part of a "divine programme" at the Ram Temple. "The supernatural moment of the consecration of Shri Ram Lala's life in Ayodhya Dham is going to leave everyone emotional," he wrote in Hindi.

 The historic ceremony will be attended by representatives of all major spiritual and religious sects.  including representatives of tribal communities, will also attend" the statement said.

PM Modi will also interact with labourers who are building the temple, which has reportedly been built in the northern Indian Nagara style. Its 392 pillars, 44 doors and walls have elaborate carvings of gods and goddesses. The idol of five-year-old Lord Ram has been placed at the sanctum sanctorum.