Today, the eagerly awaited ceremony to consecrate Lord Ram's idol at the newly constructed Ram Temple in Ayodhya is taking place. The "Pran Pratishtha" ceremony is scheduled from 12:20 p.m. to 1 p.m. Following this, PM Modi will address a gathering of over 7,000 people, including religious leaders and notable personalities at the location. Industrialists Gautam Adani, Mukesh Ambani, along with his family, and renowned entrepreneur Ratan Tata are among the prominent Indian business figures invited as special guests for the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
Business Leaders Invited to Attend Ram Temple Consecration
- Mukesh Ambani and family - Reliance Industries
- Gautam Adani - Adani group
- Ratan N Tata - Tata Sons
- Azim Premji – Wipro
- N R Narayana Murthy - Infosys
- Ashok Hinduja - Hinduja group
- Adar Poonawala - Serum Institute of India
- Adi Godrej - Godrej Group
- Aditya Puri - HDFC
- Arun Bharat Ram - Sriram Group
- Ashish Chauhan - National Stock Exchange (NSE)
- Baba Kalyani - Bharat Forge
- Byju Raveendran - Byju's
- C K Birla - Birla Industries
- Deepak Parekh - Former HDFC chairperson
- Dilip Sanghvi - Sun Pharma
- Dinesh Khara - SBI
- Durali Divi - Divis Laboratories
- G V K Reddy - GVK Group
- Gautam Singhania - Raymond
- Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao - GMR Group
- Harsh Goenka - RPG Enterprises
- Harsh Mariwala – Marico
- Hasmukhbhai Patel - Ramdev Food Products Pvt Ltd
- Illa Krishna - Bharat Biotech
- JK Tyres' Raghupati Singhania - JK Tyres
- K Krithivasan - Tata Consultancy Services
- K Satish Reddy - Dr Reddy's Pharmaceuticals
- K Kumar Mangalam Birla - Aditya Birla Group
- Mahendra Choksi - Asian Paints
- Madhukar Parekh - Pidilite Adhesives
- Nandan Nilekani - Infosys
- Naresh Trehan - Medanta Group
- Naveen Jindal - Jindal Steel & Power
- Nirmal Minda - Minda Group
- Nusli Wadia - Bombay Dyeing
- Pankaj Patel - Zydus Lifesciences
- Prathap C Reddy - Apollo Hospital
- Punit Goenka - Zee Entertainment Enterprises
- Puneet Yadu Dalmia - Dalmia Bharat
- Rahul Bhatia - Indigo
- Rahul Chandrakant Kirloskar - Kirloskar Pneumatic Co Ltd
- Ramdeo Agrawal - Motilal Oswal
- Sanjay Kirloskar - Kirloskar Brothers Ltd,
- Sajjan Jindal - JSW Steel
- Sashi Jagdishan - HDFC
- Shapoor Mistry - Shapoorji Pallonji Group
- Siddharth Mohanti - LIC
- Sridhar Vembu - Zoho
- Sudhir Mehta - Torrent group
- Uday Kotak - Kotak Mahindra Bank
- Yusuf Hamied - Cipla Pharmaceuticals
Where to watch live?
You can catch the live coverage of the consecration ceremony on Doordarshan, starting at 7 am. The broadcast is also available for livestreaming on Doordarshan's official YouTube channel. Alternatively, viewers can tune in to DD National for the live event.
The consecration ceremony marks a significant moment following the first phase of the temple's construction, prompted by a Supreme Court judgment in 2019 on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit. The dispute involved Hindu litigants contending that the Babri Mosque was built on the site of a temple marking Lord Ram's birthplace. The mosque was subsequently demolished in 1992 by "kar sevaks."