Chief Minister N. Rangasamy has announced a public holiday in the Union Territory on January 22 on the occasion of Ram Mandir consecration ceremony at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.
Representatives of Vishva Hindu Parishad and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had already met the Chief Minister to invite him for the temple’s ‘Pran Pratishtha ceremony’. The Chief Minister has not yet taken a decision on attending the event, a government source said.