Ram Mandir Trust members meet PM Modi, invite him to visit Ayodhya

Members of

the Ram Mandir Trust, including its president Nritya Gopal Das, on Thursday

called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence in New Delhi and

invited him to visit Ayodhya.

The meeting

came a day after the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra, set up recently to

oversee the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, met for the first time on

Wednesday.

VHP leader

Champat Rai, who was elected as the trust’s general secretary, was present at

the meeting along with treasurer Swami Govind Dev Giri.

“We invited the prime minister to visit Ayodhya,” Das told sources after the meeting. Later, Rai said the trustees were called by Prime Minister Modi and it was a courtesy meeting.

Meanwhile,

Vishva Hindu Parishad’s international working president Alok Kumar said in the

run-up to Ram Navami, ‘RamoUtsav’ will be celebrated from March 25 till April

8.

The

15-member trust was constituted by the Modi government, after the Supreme

Court’s landmark verdict on November 9 in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case

which settled the long-festering religious issue and allowed building of a

temple at the disputed site where many Hindus believe Lord Ram was born.

Announcement

of the formation of the trust was made by Modi in Lok Sabha.