"A Gimmick Before The Elections": Mamata Banerjee Attacks BJP For Using Ram Temple Inauguration

Addressing a public programme at Joynagar in West Bengal”s South 24 Parganas district, TMC chief and Chief Minister of the state Mamata Banerjee said that with Ram Temple inauguration ceremony the BJP is “doing a gimmick” ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. She added that she does not support festivities which exclude other communities.

“I believe in festivities that take along people from all all communities and speak about unity. Do whatever you want. You are doing a gimmick before the elections, do it, I have no problem but disregarding people of other communities is not right”, ANI quotes as TMC supremo is saying.

“I will never allow discrimination between Hindus and Muslim as long as I live,” she added. As per the reports, Mamata Banerjee likely to skip the Ram Temple inauguration ceremony

The Ram Temple inauguration ceremony, or the idol consecration ceremony will take place in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya on January 22. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest at the event and will perform the rituals in sanctum sanctorum of the temple. Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra Trust is planning to invite over 7,000 people for the event. The trust has also invited close 4,000 seers from across the country and 50 guests from abroad.

The official sources reported that invitation card for the ceremony will be “hand-delivered to all the guests” via representatives of the temple trust and a large number of volunteers. Some of the guests have already received the invitation card. Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge, senior party leader Sonia Gandhi, the party’s leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, and Former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and HD Deve Gowda are some of the politicians received the invitations.