India PM to lay foundation stone for contentious Hindu temple

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for a grand Hindu temple in a highly anticipated ceremony at a holy site that was bitterly contested by Muslims, officials said Sunday. Its construction in a flashpoint town in northern India has been a campaign pledge of Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party since the 1980s. The Supreme Court ruled in November that a temple could be built in Ayodhya, where Hindu…