Oppn skips Ram temple event; Rahul protests after being stopped from visiting Assam temple, Mamata leads all-faith rally

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Ram Temple consecration ceremony at Ayodhya but faith remained on the agenda for many of them on Monday with Rahul Gandhi protesting after he was stopped from visiting a temple in Assam and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee holding an all-faith rally. As BJP leaders went all out to project the event as a moment of national pride, some leaders were directly critical of the ceremony with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, belonging to the CPI(M), slamming the state's role in the Ram Temple consecration, saying the line that demarcates religion and state seems to be «getting thinner and thinner.»

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A few hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the consecration of the Ram Temple, Vijayan in a message said that a time has come when the inauguration of a religious place of worship in the country was being celebrated as a state event.
Many INDIA bloc leaders had earlier declined the invite to the ceremony citing diverse reasons with the Congress top brass alleging that it had been made into a «BJP-RSS event».
However, religion remained the dominant theme for many INDIA bloc leaders on the day with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, cabinet ministers and AAP MLAs taking part in various events across the national capital as part of the party's plan to mark the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) organised shobha yatras and bhandaras in different parts of the national capital to celebrate the 'Pran Pratistha (consecration)' ceremony.
In a post in Hindi on X, Kejriwal said he participated in bhandaras organised in different areas of Delhi.
Rahul Gandhi, who is leading the Congress'