The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Tuesday said that veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani, who spearheaded the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, would be attending the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22.
Alok Kumar, the VHP’s working president, while speaking to The Hindu, said that Mr. Advani may not attend the full event, considering his old age, but he would surely be attending.
“When I met him at his residence to invite him for the Ram temple’s pran pratistha, the conversation started with logistics. He just asked how he would be taken inside and how he would travel. Not coming to Ayodhya was not a point in his mind at all,” Mr. Kumar said. He added that all arrangements were being made for the nonagenarian’s comfort.
