Gujarat’s Jamnagar is all decked up to host the pre-wedding festivities of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Foundation founder and chairperson Nita Ambani’s youngest son Anant Ambani with industrialist Viren Merchant’s daughter Radhika Merchant from March 1-3.
Anant and Radhika got engaged in a traditional ‘Roka’ ceremony at the Shrinathji Temple in Nathdwara town of Rajasthan’s Rajsamand in the presence of family members and friends in 2022.
But do you know why this temple is significant for the Ambani family? The temple is dedicated to Srinathji — the deity of the family.
A statement issued by the family said the young couple, after the engagement, spent the day at the temple seeking Lord Shrinathji’s blessings for their marriage.
In October 2022, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited announced the launch of 5G services in Rajasthan from the Shrinathji temple. “It’s 5G for Sriji,” Vishal Baba, mahant of the Nathdwara temple, had said then.
Mukesh Ambani had visited the temple in September and promised to launch 5G services in Rajasthan from the temple. In 2015 too, Mukesh Ambani had paid a visit to Shrinathji Temple before the launch of 4G services.
According to the temple’s website, Shrinathji’s idol was brought to Rajasthan from Govardhana near Vrindavan in 1665.
“The idol went on a journey to Mewar which took 32 months to complete. The decision to settle the Lord here at Nathdwara involves an interesting story. When the wheel of the chariot carrying the Lord got stuck in the mud at a place called Sihar, the Rana saw it as a divine sign that Lord Krishna wished to settle here, and thus a temple was built at this spot and the holy township of Nathdwara grew around the temple,” the website adds.
In 1672, Lord Shrinathji was placed in a new Temple built in village Sihad, now called Nathdwara, on the banks of river Banas, it said.
PRE-WEDDING FESTIVITIES
VVIPs from across the globe are expected to attend the three-day function in Jamnagar. The guest list includes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Disney CEO Bob Iger, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Adnoc CEO Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, and EL Rothschild chair Lynn Forester de Rothschild.
Others include Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, PM, Qatar; Murray Auchincloss, CEO, BP; Thomas Barrack, Chairman & Founder, Colony Capital; Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister of Sweden; John Chambers, CEO, JC2 Ventures; John Elkann, Executive Chairman, Exor; Ari Emanuel, CEO, Endeavor; Bill Ford, Chairman & CEO, General Atlantic; Stephen Schwarzman, Founder, Blackstone Group; Brian Thomas Moynihan, Chairman, Bank of America; Carlos Slim, Investor; Jay Lee, Executive Chairman, Samsung Electronics; Raymond Dalio, Founder, Bridgewater Associates; Zhang Lei, Founder, Hillhouse Capital; Howard Marks, Co-founder, Oaktree Capital Management; James Dinan, Founder, York Capital Management; Bruce Flatt, CEO, Brookfield Asset Management; Michael Grimes, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; Stephen Harper, Former Prime Minister of Canada; Donald Harrison, President, Google; and Richard Hilton, Chairman, Hilton & Hyland.
The VVIP guest list from India includes Kumar Mangalam Birla, Uday Kotak, Adar Poonawala, Sunil Mittal, spiritual leader Sadhguru, Sachin Tendulkar and family, MS Dhoni and family, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Amitabh Bachchan and family, Rajnikanth and family, Shah Rukh Khan and family, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif, and Madhuri Dixit.
Famous international artists including Rihanna and magician David Blaine are set to perform at the pre-wedding festivities. Top Indian musicians who’ll perform include Arijit Singh, Ajay-Atul and Diljit Dosanjh.
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