The large-scale event is being invited to the families of Dalit icons, or “karsevaks,” as well as several other well-known figures.

The consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya is scheduled for January 22, and thousands of people from all around the country are expected to attend. The large-scale event is being invited to the families of Dalit icons, or “karsevaks,” as well as several other well-known figures. However, according to sources, Yogi Adityanath is the only Chief Minister to receive an invitation from the administration.

“Except for Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of host state Uttar Pradesh, no other chief minister has been invited for the “Pran Pratishtha” (consecration ceremony),” a source informed NDTV.

Union ministers and other prominent politicians have not been “invited for them to be ministers in a state or the Centre,” the source added.

Among those invited to the ceremony on January 22 are the families of Dalit luminaries Jagjivan Ram, Kanshi Ram, and BR Ambedkar. The event, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend, has also extended invitations to the families of “karsevaks” who lost their lives during the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation.

Members of the invitation list include three retired chief justices of the Supreme Court, retired commanders of the army, navy, and air force, former ambassadors, senior administrators, IPS officers holding “key positions,” and “brothers and sisters honored with the Nobel prize.”

The Ram Temple event invites have also erupted into a political dispute, with the Congress and other opposition parties being criticized by the BJP for not attending.

With the justification that “religion is a personal matter” and that the gathering is a “political project” of the BJP and its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have denied the invitation.

Additionally, it has been announced that the Trinamool Congress and the Left will not attend the function.

SOURCE: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/except-yogi-adityanath-no-chief-minister-sent-invite-for-ram-temple-event-sources-4847505#:~:text=But%20the%20government%20has%20not,%2C%22%20a%20source%20told%20NDTV.