Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray received the invitation for the Ram Temple consecration ceremony through speed post on Saturday.
Shiv Sena has attacked BJP regarding this.
On sending the invitation by post, Sanjay Raut said that Lord Ram will curse him for this. The Shiv Sena MP said, “You are giving special invitations to celebrities and film stars. They have nothing to do with Ram Janmabhoomi, but you are behaving like this with the Thackeray family? Thackeray played a prominent and important role in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. Lord Ram will not forgive you. Will curse for this. You are praying to Lord Ram and running the government like Ravana.”
Sanjay Raut has attacked BJP through the editorial of Saamna. Let us tell you that Uddhav Thackeray had earlier said that he does not need an invitation to visit Ram Temple.
He has been there many times before. He said that the inauguration ceremony should be performed by President Draupadi Murmu instead of PM Modi.
He said, Ram temple was the dream of my father Balasaheb Thackeray. It is a moment of joy that the temple will be opened. However, he criticized how the BJP took over the event.
Announcing his party’s plans on January 22, Uddhav Thackeray said, “I am a Ram devotee, a patriot, not a blind devotee.
The construction of Ram temple was my father’s dream.” On January 22, when PM Modi will be inaugurating the Ram temple, at the same time Uddhav will offer prayers at the Kalaram temple in Nashik.
Leaders of Congress, CPM, Trinamool, Samajwadi Party will not attend this program. Akhilesh Yadav said that after the opening of the temple, he will visit the Ram temple with his entire family.
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said he will visit Ram temple with his family after the inauguration.
The invitee list includes at least 8,000 people, including film stars, sportspersons, priests, judges, industrialists and politicians.
The invitees include Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Mohanlal, Prabhas, Allu Arjun, Jr NTR, Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Ajay Devgan, Hema Malini, Sunny Deol, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kangana Ranaut and Madhuri Dixit.
Sarod player Amjad Ali Khan, lyricist and poet Manoj Muntashir and his wife, lyricist and writer Prasoon Joshi and director Sanjay Bhansali have been invited as state guests.
Madhur Bhandarkar, Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal, Anup Jalota, Sonu Nigam, Anuradha Paudwal, Kailash Kher have also been invited.
Actor Arun Govil, who played Lord Ram in Ramanand Sagar’s TV series “Ramayana”, and his co-star Deepika Chikhalia, who played Sita in the show, have also been invited.
Sachin Tendulkar, chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, sprint queen PT Usha and footballer Bhaichung Bhutia are among the prominent sports personalities.
Apart from them, Kapil Dev, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sunil Gavaskar, Virat Kohli, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Virender Sehwag, Ravindra Jadeja and Rohit Sharma have been invited.