Ram temple work from Aug. 3 or 5

PM invited to lay foundation stone for temple

Ayodhya, July 18: The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lay the foundation stone of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya either on August 3 or 5, both auspicious dates, a spokesperson said on Saturday.

Mahant Kamal Nayan Das, spokesperson of trust president Nritya Gopal Das said, “We have suggested two auspicious dates for the Prime Minister’s visit based on calculations of movements of stars and planets.”

The decision about the tentative date for laying the foundation stone of the temple was taken at a meeting of the trust members held in Ayodhya on Saturday. Senior advocate K. Parasaran, Vasudevanand Saraswati and Swami Vishwa Prasanjeet attended the meeting via video links.

Trust general secretary Champat Rai said soon after the monsoon, the Ram temple trust will contact 10 crore families across India for financial help and it will take three to three-and-half years after the finalisation of the temple’s design to complete its construction.

At the meeting, the issue of the height of the Ram Mandir was discussed. The temple’s height would be 161 feet and have five domes, said Kameshwar Chaupal, a member of the trust.

The meeting was also

attended by Nripendra Mishra, former principal secretary to Prime Minister Modi and chairman of the construction committee of Ram Mandir, and Avaneesh Awasthi, the principal secretary to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. In

a bid to put an end to the more than a century-old dispute that has torn the social fabric of the nation, after a protracted legal tussle, the Supreme Court had on November 9 last year paved the way for the construction of a Ram temple by a trust.