New Home For Lord Ram: PM Modi Leads Rituals At Grand Ayodhya Temple

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday afternoon completed the ‘pran pratishtha‘, or consecration, of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the building of which is a 50-year-project of the BJP realised three months before the general election.Live visuals of the consecration showed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat sitting next to the PM. The RSS, or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is the ideological mentor of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, and visuals of the two next to each other have been seen as acknowledgement that the Ram Temple project is a joint BJP-RSS project.Shortly before the ceremony Mr Modi said it is a “great pleasure” to be part of a “divine programme” at the Ram Temple. “The supernatural moment of the consecration of Shri Ram Lala’s life in Ayodhya Dham is going to leave everyone emotional,” he wrote in Hindi.Earlier today the PM shared an aerial video of Ayodhya, which NDTV was told was shot from the helicopter that ferried him from the town to the temple, which has been festooned with flowers and decorations – a distance of around 18 km.