A Minister in the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh, Vikramaditya Singh, and former Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) chief Nirmal Khatri were the two prominent Congress leaders who attended the Pran Pratishtha (consecration ceremony) at Ayodhya on Monday, even as the top Congress leadership stayed away by calling it a “BJP/RSS event”.
The Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust had invited Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of the Parliamentary party Sonia Gandhi and the party’s leader in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
They had declined the invitation by stating that the Ram Mandir was a “long-standing political project of the BJP” and “religion was a matter of personal belief”.
