"January 22 next year is as important as August 15...": Ram temple trust chief

Dec 23, 2023

Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh), December 23 (ANI): Ahead of the grand consecration ceremony of the Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, General Secretary of Sri Ram Janambhoomi Trust Champat Rai on Friday compared January 22 next year to that of India's independence -- August 15, the day it was liberated from the foreign yoke. "January 22, 2024, is as important as August 15, 1947; it is equally important as getting Kargil back, and as much as the detention of one lakh soldiers was important in 1971," Rai told ANI. He further said that there is a feeling of satisfaction among the people of Ayodhya over the construction of the temple which has become an 'instrument to unite India'. "There is a feeling of satisfaction. The people of Ayodhya, small princely states of the neighbourhood, priests, teachers and all the saints from all over India after 1983, started getting associated with it. The subject which was limited only to Ayodhya, became the subject of the respect of the entire country," he added.