Ayodhya: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, dressed in a traditional kurta tunic, led the opening ceremony as Hindu priests chanted hymns inside the temple’s inner sanctum, where a 1.3-meter stone sculpture of Lord Ram was installed last week.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi will conduct the hearing. The bench, also comprising Justices S A Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S A Nazeer had on August 2 taken note of the report of the three-member mediation panel, headed by former apex court judge FMI Kalifulla, that the mediation proceedings which went on for about four months have not resulted in any final settlement.
The CM stressed that the core Ram temple issue was not about the division of land among the parties to the dispute, but whether it (the disputed site) is the birth place (of Lord Ram) or not.
"Rahul Gandhi has failed in politics and is misleading the public. He is raking up the Rafale issue to share information with Pakistan and China," he said.
The meeting has been chaired by the acting chief of Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas Mahant Nritya Gopal Das and is being attended by prominent seers associated with the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.
In an exclusive interview with India TV, Swami Ramdev said that Ram Mandir is not at all a political issue rather it is a national issue for the people of India.
A day ahead of the 25th anniversary of the unfortunate event, the Supreme Court commenced the final hearings in the long-standing BabriMasjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute.
Amit Shah accused the Congress of having "double standards" on the contentious issue and said the BJP on the other hand wanted an end to the matter as soon as possible.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to hear the 13 appeals filed against the 2010 judgement of the Allahabad High Court in four civil suits on February 8, 2018
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday made a strong pitch for building the Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, saying only the mandir would come up there and not any other structure.
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