Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the inauguration of the Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya on January 22 - a historic day for the nation.

"I feel very blessed. It is my good fortune that in my lifetime, I will witness this historic occasion," PM Modi said in a post on X.

"Today is a day full of emotions. Recently the officials of Shri Ram Janma Bhoomi Tirtha Kshetra had come to meet me at my residence. They invited me to come to Ayodhya on the occasion of consecration of Shri Ram temple," PM Modi said in the post in Hindi, along with a photo of the temple trust's functionaries.