PRESIDENT DONATES ₹5L TO RAM TEMPLE TRUST
NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday contributed ₹500,100 for the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya.
A delegation of Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) international working president Alok Kumar, treasurer of the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerath Kshetra trust Govind Dev Giri and former bureaucrat Nripendra Misra, who is the head of the temple construction committee, were part of the delegation that called on President Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The VHP, an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideological fountainhead, was at the forefront of the Ram Mandir construction movement. The trust has mandated it to collect funds for the temple’s construction.
The meeting with Kovind is part of VHP’s campaign to seek contribution for the temple, said a VHP functionary. The fund collection campaign will be carried out across 525,000 villages. The collection drive began on January 15 and will conclude by February 27.
NEW DELHI: President Ramnath Kovind on Friday contributed ₹5,00,100 for the construction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya.
A delegation of VHP’s international working president Alok Kumar, treasurer of the Ram Janmabhoomi teerath Kshetra trust, Govind Dev Giri and former bureaucrat Nripendra Misra, who is the head of the temple construction committee, were part of the delegation that called on President Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The VHP, an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s ideological fountainhead, was at the forefront of the Ram Mandir construction movement. The trust has mandated it to collect funds for the temple’s construction.
The meeting with Kovind is part of VHP’s campaign to seek contribution cutting across class and communities, said a VHP functionary.
“This is VHP’s campaign initiated to seek a contribution towards the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya cutting across languages, castes, communities and classes,” a senior VHP member was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Kumar had earlier told HT that to ensure transparency, funds above ₹20,000 will be collected through cheques.
The fund collection campaign will be carried out across 525,000 villages and the monies collected will have to be deposited within 48 hours in banks.
MP CM donates ₹1 lakh for temple construction
Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also donated ₹ 1 lakh as a contribution to the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.