Congress Not to Attend Ayodhya Ram Temple Consecration, Terms it BJP/RSS Event

New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday declared that it would skip the consecration ceremony of the Ayodhya Ram Temple. The party termed the event to be a “political project” of the BJP and the RSS.

This means, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and the party’s leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who received the invitation, have declined to attend the ceremony.

In a statement, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, “Religion is a personal matter. But the RSS/BJP have long made a political project of the temple in Ayodhya. The inauguration of the incomplete temple by the leaders of the BJP and the RSS has been obviously brought forward for electoral gain,” read a statement from.

“While abiding by the 2019 Supreme Court judgment and honouring the sentiments of millions who revere Lord Ram, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have respectfully declined the invitation to what is clearly an RSS/BJP event,” Ramesh added.