The construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya became possible only after a 5-judge Bench of the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Trust.
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The Ram Lalla idol will be placed in the Ayodhya Ram Mandir Temple in the third week of January 2024, Swami Govind Dev Maharaj, treasurer of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra said.
He made the comments on March 15 during a visit to Dombivili in Maharashtra to inaugurate various programmes. Speaking to the media, he said, ” the work of Lord Ramachandra Temple in Ayodhya is going on very fast and well. At present the work on the Temple is 70 per cent complete. We are sure that Ram Lalla will be installed at the original place in the third week of January 2024. Arrangements will be made for devotees to visit and offer prayers from that day itself.
He also said that the Ram Lalla will be installed at its original place at the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He further added that their target is to finish work on the Sanctum Sanctorum.
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“Our target is to complete the work on the sanctum sanctorum, a first floor and arrangements for Harshan. The work on the rest of the Temple’s craftsmanship will continue,” he also said.
He also said that the construction f the Ram Mandir and 2024 general elections are not linked.
“We are just doing our work. The idol of Ram Lalla had been kept in a cloth pandal for a long period of time before it was shifted to a small Temple. Time has now come to shift the deity to the original place,” he said.
The construction of the Ram Mandir became possible only following a judgment of the Supreme Court. On November 19 2019, a five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court headed by then Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi ruled in favour of Ram Lalla. The Bench said that the entire disputed land spread over 2.7 acres shall be handed over to a Trust formed the government, which will monitor the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the establishment of the Shri Janmabhoomi Teerth Ksehtra in February 2020, to oversee the construction of the Ram Mandir. On August 5 2020, PM Modi performed the Bhooma Puja for the building of the Temple.
Donations:
Earlier this week, it was reported that the Ram Mandir in the past 15 days had received over Rs 1 crore in the donation box kept inside the Temple.
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The bank officials tasked with the counting and depositing of donations informed the Ram Mandir Trust that the donations have increased three fold since January 2023. Two officials have been appointed exclusively for the counting and depositing of cash in the Trust’s bank account in State Bank of India.
The inflow of donations is rapidly increasing and in the days to come, arrangements will be done on the lines of Tirupati Balaji where hundreds of workers engage in counting of cash every day, Champat Rai, general secretary of the Ram Janmabhoomi Tirtha Kshetra Trust, said.
Story first published: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 11:35 [IST]
