Ayodhya: Mahant Dinendra Das of Nirmohi Akhara on Tuesday said that all the 13 ‘Panch’ of the major Akhara will attend the Pran Pratishtha ceremony of Lord Ram Lala in Ayodhya on January 22. Nirmohi Akhara’s Ayodhya meeting chief said claims that the Akhara is unhappy with the rituals in the temple town are “false”.
“Anyone can say anything,” Das told ANI. Our Akhara has received the invitation. Everyone is satisfied and everyone is going to join in. All this (news of not being happy) is false.” Pujari’s statement came when Congress leader Digvijay Singh asked whether the Nirmohi Akhara, which was one of the main litigants in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit, has been extended an invitation for the grand event later this month.
Singh wrote on social media platform X, ‘The temple will be built there.’ Now why not build it there? When did the Supreme Court give the disputed land to the Trust? Only Champat Rai ji of @VHPDigital or @narendramodi ji can answer this. My thoughts are with the families of the volunteers killed in the temple construction movement and against whom criminal cases have been filed in the court. Why were they invited? What did you invite to the people of Nirmohi Akhara, who fought for Ram Janmabhoomi for 175 years and fought in the court? Their worship rights were also snatched away and given to selected volunteers of Champat Rai of VHP. Is this the official religion? Is this Ram Raj?”
Responding to this, Das said, “Every ‘Mahatma’ and political leaders are being invited by our Trust… At present there are 13 ‘Panchs’ in the Akhara. All of them have been invited. Other saints of the Akhara have also been invited and everyone is also coming…”
