PM Modi is likely to spend around three hours in Ayodhya on August 5
The prime minister will leave delhi by special flight on august 5th morning, and after reaching lucknow, fly by chopper to ayodhya, around 125 km away. The chopper will land at a helipad set up in a college in the Uttar Pradesh holy town on the banks of the river Saryu. According to ram temple trust officials, PM modi will proceed to ram Janmabhoomi or the site of the temple, which thousands of devotees believe was the spot where Lord ram was born.
Perhaps the PM will lay a 40-kg silver brick to symbolize the start of construction of the ram temple that is core to the ruling BJP's ideology and poll promises. A campaign for the temple marked the rise of the party to the national spotlight in the 1990s. Iqbal Ansari, a litigant in the decades-old temple-mosque dispute, was the first person to be invited. "I will certainly attend it. The dispute is over now after the court verdict," Mr Ansari said. His father Hashim Ansari, the oldest litigant in the case, died in 2016. The ceremony will be telecast live by national broadcaster Doordarshan. The ram temple will be built after years of dispute over the 2.77 acre site where the 16th century Babri mosque stood before it was razed in 1992 by hindu activists who believed it was built on the ruins of an ancient temple marking the birthplace of Lord Ram.