Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Ayodhya from Delhi on Wednesday (August 5) to attend bhoomi pujan of Ram Mandir. The grand celebrations for the bhoomi pujan started at 8 am and PM Modi performed the Ayodhya Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan at the auspicious time of 12:40 pm.
Huge CCTV screens were set up across the holy city in order to allow the people to watch the ceremony live. PM Modi left from Delhi at 9.30 am on a special jet and landed in Lucknow. After landing in Lucknow, he took a chopper to Ayodhya where he offered prayers and performed a puja at the Hanumangarhi temple.
Apart from PM Modi, the bhoomi pujan ceremony was attended by Sri Ram Janambhoomi Teerath Kshetra Trust chairman Nritya Gopal Das, RSS chief Bhagwat, Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath.
Several important faces of the Ram Mandir movement such as Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Kalyan Singh and Uma Bharti skipped the ceremony due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. They joined the celebrations via video conferencing.