Ram Mandir Opening: Serum Institute's Adar Poonawala accepts invite to ceremony

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Ram Mandir Opening: Is January 22 a bank holiday? Check here Several politicians, industrialists, sportsmen, and celebrities have been invited to the Pran Pratishta ceremony which will also see Prime Minister Narendra Modi in attendance. Among the other industrialist invitees include Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani, Ratan Tata, Gautam Adani and TS Kalyanaraman, MD of Kalyan Jewellers.

Also Read | Ayodhya Ram Mandir: From politicians to celebrities, who all are invited to the consecration ceremony? Check full list here Among politicians, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has decided to skip the event and in a letter to General Secretary of Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Champat Rai said he will take time out after the ceremony and visit Ayodhya for “darshan". Congress, too, has decided to skip the Ram Mandir pran pratishtha ceremony of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of making it a “political project".

The Congress statement said, “Lord Ram is worshipped by millions in our country. 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." Also Read | Ayodhya Ram Mandir opening ceremony: Who's invited, who's left out, who is planning to give it a miss? Read here Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on January 13 confirmed that he received an invite to the Ram Temple consecration ceremony and said that he would visit the temple along with his family after the event.

The 'Pran Pratishtha' ceremony of the Ram Temple will be held on January 22. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to attend the