Champat Rai is the General Secretary of Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir Trust in 2020. Rai is also the International Vice President of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
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Early Life
Rai is a resident of Bijnor District in the Uttar Pradesh.
He was born in 1946 to father Rameshwar Prasad Bansal.
In early life, Champat Rai was influenced by the philosophy of RSS and had joined it since childhood.
Champat Rai was even jailed for 18 months (starting in 1975) during emergency when several non-congress politicians, media persons, and journalists, were forcefully imprisoned for having a different point of view than the then Congress Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Ram Mandir Struggle
Champat Rai was one of the main litigants of the Ram Mandir legal struggle which resulted in a verdict that led to the creation of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
Rai was among the few people who went to extend an invite to PM Modi for the Pran Pratishtha Pujan of the Ram Mandir.
He also clarified the issue of who was building Ram Lalla’s new idol. He shared that the idol was being built in black stone by Chandresh Pandey, a sculptor from Jaipur.
#NOTE: A Pran Pratistha Pujan is the process of consecrating a deity in a temple. It is believed that after the puja, the deity resides in the temple as a living God and not just as an idol. It is different than Bhumi Pujan which is done before the construction of a temple, house or place of business.
