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New Delhi : PM Narendra Modi on August 5, 2020, performed the bhoomi pujan’ of a Supreme Court-mandated Ram temple at Ayodhya, UP, bringing to fruition the BJP’s mandir’ movement that defined its politics for three decades and took it to the heights of power. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath were among those who attended the event.
The guest list including religious leaders who formed part of the movement that started in the 1980s, was restricted to 175 in view of the COVID-19 crisis.
As a priest chanted Sanskrit shlokas and the ground-breaking ceremony got underway, PM Modi and the other dignitaries, all in masks, maintained social distancing and sat a safe distance away from each other.