New Delhi: Former Union minister and senior Congress chief Dr Karan Singh Friday differed together with his get together management’s determination to say no the invitation to the 22 January Ram temple ‘pran pratishtha’, saying that after the Supreme Courtroom judgment, “there should be no hesitation in attending the function, if invite”.
Singh’s assertion got here after he was invited to the occasion, which, he “regretfully” mentioned, he received’t be capable of attend on medical grounds. The 93-year-old chief, who has been largely inactive within the Congress for fairly a while, said, “Today I have received the beautiful invitation to the historic Pran Pratishtha ceremony of the Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on 22nd January 2024 which will be celebrated by about a billion Hindus around the globe.”
He added that he made a “modest personal donation” of Rs 11 lakh in direction of the development.
Singh’s assertion comes two days after the Congress management together with Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury declined the invitation to the occasion Wednesday.
They’d mentioned the “BJP/RSS have long made a political project of the temple in Ayodhya”. The get together accused the BJP and its ideological fountainhead, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), of bringing ahead the inauguration date of the “incomplete temple” for electoral achieve.
On Friday, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera clarified that the get together is just not towards visiting the Ram temple, however towards the “politicisation” of the 22 January occasion. Saying that it was a “personal invite”, Khera added that although it was declined by the highest brass, a number of different Congress leaders, who had been invited, had been going for the occasion.
In 2022, Dr Karan Singh had mentioned, “Yes, I’m in Congress but there’s no contact, nobody asks me anything… My relations with the party are almost zero now.”
Final 12 months in October, when he was drafted in a state-level govt committee of the get together’s J&Okay unit, Singh requested to be dropped saying he had not been lively in state politics for a number of years.
(Edited Tikli Basu)
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