Ram Mandir

Meanwhile, Meera Majhi expressed her joy over meeting Prime Minister Modi. Speaking to PTI she said, "I was overjoyed, never did I imagine that 'God' would visit my home like this. My happiness was beyond control."

Yogi Adityanath said, "The Lord is coming. Dear brothers and sisters, the wait of 500 years will end soon."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for multiple development projects worth Rs 15,700 crore in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya on Saturday.

PM Modi said, "I urge all the countrymen to celebrate Deepawali on that evening. On the evening of 22nd January, the whole of India should be illuminated."

Vasudev Gupta who was from Ayodhya was killed amid the Ram Mandir agitation. His spouse was a devoted follower of Lord Ram.

Like a morose Congress, Ravish too is crying foul over Ram Mandir celebrations. He specifically named Dainik Jagran, Bhaskar, Hindustan and Amar Ujala, for their coverage of Ram Mandir

The Congress is said to have justified its choice as a necessary tightrope walk ahead of the election. The Congress believed that not attending the Ram Temple event would give the BJP a lethal weapon that could be used to attack Gandhi's party and, by extension, its I.N.D.I Alliance ally before the election.

"Sam Pitroda's statement is not an official statement of Congress, he doesn't speak on behalf of the Congress party," Jairam Ramesh said

Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year, both Congress and the communists seem to be competing to woo the Islamic extremist outfit, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), in Kerala.

Maharishi Valmiki International Airport Ayodhya Dham will be inaugurated by PM Modi on 30 December, along with several other projects in Ayodhya