#AyodhyaRamMandir Ram temple will be modern symbol of our culture, eternal faith and national spirit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation of the Ram temple. He participated in other rituals at the temple site and offered prayers.

Shri Narendra Modi opened his address at Ayodhya with chants of “Siyaram Ramchandra ki jai”. He congratulated devotees of Ram and said that he was honoured to be invited to Ayodhya.

Special prayers were started on Monday and would end with the Prime Minister laying the foundation stone for the temple. The Uttar Pradesh government has also made elaborate security arrangement for the event.

Apart from the state police, the NSG commandos have also been kept on stand-by. The invitations for the ceremony have been kept limited due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the process of Ram temple’s construction is an attempt to connect the nation. It will be a modern symbol of our culture, eternal faith and national spirit, he added.

“For years, Ram Lalla lived under makeshift arrangements, work for a grand temple begins now,” PM Modi said in his address.

“A grand temple will now be built for our Ram Lalla. Today, Ram Janmabhoomi has broken free from the cycle of being demolished and built again which had been going on for centuries,” he said.

In his address at the grand ceremony, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the entire world is witnessing history being made with the foundation of Ram temple and called for chants of Jai Shri Ram.