‘No discrimination’: Oppositions to receive invitation for Ram Mandir inauguration amid concerns over feeling left out
Opposition leaders, including those from the Congress and Samajwadi Party, will soon receive the specially worshipped rice (‘akshat’) as an invitation to the grand inauguration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22.
According to sources, the VHP will start approaching the political outfits for the same from January 1 next year as part of a nationwide campaign that would “cut across party lines”.
VHP national spokesperson Vinod Bansal said, “There will be no discrimination on the basis of political ideology. Every willing person, irrespective of their political affiliation, will be invited with the sacred ‘akshat‘.”
VHP sources said that the organization has been advised by seers and saints to ensure that the inauguration of Ram Mandir remained a “non-political” event.
“It is a temple of Ram Bhakts, a Rashtra mandir,” said a senior VHP leader.
The development has come to attain much significance days after the opposition leaders, primarily those from the Congress, questioned if Ram Mandir’s inauguration would become a “BJP event”.
This was immediately after seers and a host of officials of the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerath Kshetra met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and extended an invitation for the temple’s inauguration.
The ‘Akshat Kalash’ which was flagged off from Ayodhya on November 5 has already reached the VHP’s 45 prants, the organizational state units. From here they will be redistributed and multiplied into thousands of similar copper ‘Kalash’ and sent further down the line.
The exercise, sources said, would be completed by the end of December after which the VHP and its associated groups will start reaching out to the households.
A senior VHP leader said that the Kalash will reach “every village, every household”.
“In all, the campaign will cover at least 5 lakh villages and more than 60 crore people,” he said.
The VHP plans to carry out a campaign similar to the ‘Ram Janmabhoomi Nidhi Samarpan Abhiyan’ of 2021 when it collected thousands of crores of funds for the construction of the Ram Mandir.
Sources said that a special focus will be on reaching out to the families of Kar Sewaks who contributed their bit during the “struggle” days and the lawyers who fought the battle in the courts.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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