Ram Mandir Inauguration In Ayodhya: Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma Receive Pran Pratishtha Invitation

Indian cricketer Virat Kohli and his wife and actor Anushka Sharma on Tuesday received an invitation for Lord Rama's Pran Pratishtha ceremony at Ram temple in Ayodhya slated for January 22. The news was shared by the celebrity couple on the micro-blogging site X, formerly known as Twitter. Pran Pratistha is a religious ritual rite, in which, Lord Rama's idol will be consecrated.

According to the reports, around 100 dignitaries from 55 countries, including ambassadors and MPs, actors and sports stars have been invited to the Ram Lala Pran Pratishtha ceremony. The list of invitees includes cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar, and MS Dhoni, cinema superstars Amitabh Bachchan, and Rajinikanth, business magnate Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, and other celebrities.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the Mukhya Yajman for the Pran Prathishtha ceremony who will perform all the rituals.

Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma have been invited for Pran Pratishtha of Lord Rama at Ram Temple in Ayodhya. pic.twitter.com/QhS71m4xy0

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Here's a list of celebrities invited for the Ram Mandir Pran Prathishtha ceremony:

Special Guests: President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, President of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, Senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge (Invitation declined) and former MP Sonia Gandhi.

Sportspersons: Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, and Deepika Kumari.

Industrialists: Gautam Adani, Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani, Kumar Mangalam Birla, N Chandrasekaran, Anil Agarwal and NR Narayana Murthy.

Cinema stars: Mohanlal, Rajnikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Madhuri Dixit, Chiranjeevi, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Akshay Kumar, Dhanush, Randeep Hooda, Ranbir Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut, Rishab Shetty, Madhur Bhandarkar, Ajay Devgn, Jackie Shroff, Tiger Shroff, Yash Prabhas, Ayushmann Khurrana, Alia Bhatt and Sunny Deol.