As Congress on Wednesday refused to attend the Ram Temple consecration ceremony on January 22 citing it as a ‘BJP, RSS event’, several BJP leaders took a jibe at the grand old party saying ‘it has missed a golden opportunity to reduce its sins’.

       BJP also published a poster targeting the Congress and other political parties for refusing the invite and said, ‘Recognize, the faces of the Sanatan opponents who rejected the invitation for the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha ceremony...’

       ‘Congress did not deserve such an invitation’

       Hitting out at Congress, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “The VHP had given the Congress party a golden opportunity to reduce its sin by extending their leadership an invitation to attend the Shri Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha Mahotsava. Although, in my humble view, they did not deserve such an invitation at the first place for their views against the Ram Mandir from the very beginning."