Bollywood famous person Amitabh Bachchan, enterprise tycoons Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi N Mittal, and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar had been amongst India’s crème de la crème who attended the grand consecration ceremony on the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Monday.

While the listing of invitees included about 8,000 names, the choose listing featured 506 A-listers, together with outstanding politicians, main industrialists, high movie stars, sportspersons, diplomats, judges and excessive monks.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani and his household, metal tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal, telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal, Reliance Group head Anil Ambani, and Aditya Birla group chairperson Kumar Mangalam Birla and his daughter Ananya Birla had been amongst a few of India Inc.’s outstanding faces that attended the ceremony.

Bachchan flew into Ayodhya in a non-public chartered aircraft for the consecration of the 51-inch Ram Lalla idol. He was accompanied by his actor son Abhishek Bachchan.

Actor Kangana Ranaut, who reached Ayodhya on Saturday, hailed the ceremony as a ”divine expertise”. She visited the Hanumangarhi temple on Sunday and in addition participated in a cleanliness drive there.

Ranaut was additionally seen elevating slogans of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ as Army helicopters showered flower petals on visitors after the consecration ceremony was over.

Besides Ranaut, Rajinikanth, Hema Malini, Pawan Kalyan, Madhur Bhandarkar, Subhash Ghai, Shefali Shah and her husband Vipul Shah, Randeep Hooda and his spouse Lin Laishram, Aadinath Mangeshkar, Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam had been amongst these from the movie business who arrived within the temple city on Sunday.

Nigam, Anuradha Paudwal and Shankar Mahadevan sang devotional songs, enthralling the viewers with their renditions of Ram bhajans.

Bollywood actors Ranbir Kapoor and his spouse Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal and his spouse Katrina Kaif, Jackie Shroff, Anupam Kher, Madhuri Dixit and her husband, movie director Rohit Shetty, lyricist Prasoon Joshi, and singers Kailash Kher and Jubin Nautiyal additionally attended the ceremony.

Actor Arun Govil, who portrayed the position of Lord Ram in Ramanand Sagar’s TV sequence ‘Ramayan’, and his co-star Dipika Chikhlia, who performed the position of Goddess Sita, arrived within the temple city final week.

Dressed as Lord Ram and Goddess Sita, Govil and Chikhlia additionally shot for a video in Ayodhya, photos of which went viral on social media.

Sadhvi Ritambhara and former Union minister Uma Bharti additionally attended the occasion. They embraced one another as tears rolled down their eyes through the ceremony. Yoga guru Ramdev, religious guru Sri Sri Ravishankar, Morari Bapu and Acharya Balkrishna had been additionally on the visitor listing.

Lok Sabha MP and senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad was additionally current in Ayodhya. Former athlete P T Usha, cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, and badminton participant Saina Nehwal had been a number of the sports activities stars who had been current.

Prashant Ruia, director of Essar Capital, the funding supervisor for the Essar Group, too was in Ayodhya for the occasion.

Sridhar Vembu, CEO of tech firm Zoho, shared on X footage from the Ram temple along with his household.

The consecration of the Ram Lalla idol was led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and watched by lakhs of individuals on tv at their properties and in temples throughout the nation.

Modi carried out a sequence of rituals on the temple with the ‘pran pratishtha’ happening through the 84-second ‘abhijeet muhurta’. At the tip of the rituals, the prime minister prostrated earlier than the idol, which depicts the kid Ram.

The ceremony happened within the presence of Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

The invitees had been offered a ‘Ram patka’ (scarf) and welcomed with tilak. All invitees had been offered a bell which they rang through the ‘aarti’.

A e-book on Ayodhya, a metallic ‘diya’, a particular ‘mala’ and a shawl bearing the identify of Lord Ram had been a number of the items given to the visitors. The items got in a bag with a putting picture of the brand new temple and a really younger avatar of Lord Ram.

Senior BJP chief and former deputy prime minister L Ok Advani and celebration veteran Murli Manohar Joshi, each of whom performed outstanding roles within the Ram temple motion, had been additionally invited to the ceremony. The household of Kalyan Singh, who was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh when the Babri Masjid was demolished, was additionally on the listing of invitees.

Former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s son-in-law Ranjan Bhattacharya, former presidents Ramnath Kovind and Pratibha Patil, and former vice chairman M Venkaiah Naidu had been additionally invited.

Former ISRO chairperson Ok Sivan, DRDO scientist Sudarshan Sharma, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, ISRO director Nilesh Desai, senior advocate Harish Salve in addition to former diplomats Veena Sikri and Lakshmi Puri, Sudhanshu Mani, the mind behind Vande Bharat Express practice, and G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant had been additionally among the many invitees.

Former Union minister Arun Jaitley’s spouse Sangeeta and daughter Sonali, former Planning Commission chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Lok Sabha audio system Sumitra Mahajan and Meira Kumar, and former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy had been additionally on the listing of invitees.

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