With the clearance from the Prime Minister’s Office, it is now official that bhoomi pujan for the construction of Ram temple will be held at Ram Janmabhoomi Complex on August 5 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation brick.
Sources said that the district administration received the clearance from the PMO on Sunday morning about the prime minister’s participation in the bhoomi pujan on August 5.
Incidentally, August 5 is the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and the bifurcation of the state as two Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
“The PM will lay the silver brick while five Brahmins from Kashi will perform the bhoomi pujan. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and all the 15 trustees will attend the function. Besides, the members of the technical team including Chandrakant Sonepura are also expected to be present there,” Dr Anil Mishra, one of the trustees, told The Pioneer on Sunday.
Dr Mishra said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was likely to reach Ayodhya at around 12 noon and would stay there for around three hours.
“The bhoomi pujan ceremony will start in the morning but Modi will join it after noon,” he said.
The proposed Ram temple will be of 161 feet height and there will be five domes instead of three domes decided earlier. The main temple over sanctum sanctorum will be designed and constructed by Chandrakant Sonepura while the other structures around the main temple will be constructed by Larson & Toubro (L&T).