Ram Mandir Trust members meet PM, invite him to visit Ayodhya for bhoomi puja
PTI, Feb 21, 2020, 11:19 AM IST
New Delhi: Ram Mandir Trust members meet PM Modi
Members of the Ram Mandir Trust, including its president Nritya Gopal Das, on Thursday, February 20 called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence here and invited him to visit Ayodhya for bhoomi puja.
The meeting came a day after the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra, set up recently to oversee the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, met for the first time on Wednesday.
VHP leader Champat Rai, who was elected as the trust’s general secretary, was present at the meeting along with treasurer Swami Govind Dev Giri.
“We invited the prime minister to visit Ayodhya (for Bhoomi puja),” Das told reporters after the meeting.
He said that the Prime Minister has told them that he will consider this.
The date of bhoomi puja is yet to be decided by the trust and is expected in the next few months.
Later Rai said that the trustees were called by Prime Minister Modi and it was a courtesy meeting.
Meanwhile, Vishva Hindu Parishad’s international working president Alok Kumar said in the run-up to Ram Navami, ‘RamoUtsav’ will be celebrated from March 25 till April 8.
During this festival, the VHP workers will reach out to all the 2.75 lakh villages across the country which had contributed to the Ram Janambhoomi movement, Kumar said.
The 15-member trust was constituted by the Modi government, after the Supreme Court’s landmark verdict on November 9 in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case which settled the long-festering religious issue and allowed the building of a temple at the disputed site where many Hindus believe Lord Ram was born.
The announcement of the formation of the trust was made by Modi in Lok Sabha.
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