Stage set for groundbreaking ceremony of Ayodhya temple on August 5

Celebration time

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray are among those who will attend the ground-breaking ceremony for the Ram temple in Ayodhya, to be performed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 5. According to the temple trust, laying a 40-kg silver brick as the foundation stone by Modi will be the highlight of the ceremony. Thackeray had visited Ayodhya in March, his first after becoming chief minister, and had stressed that while his party, the Shiv Sena, had severed ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party, it was committed to the construction of a grand