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New Delhi: In a video that was widely circulated Tuesday, BJP MP from Dausa Jaskaur Meena has said that Covid-19 will end in India as soon as the Ram temple is built in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.

“We pray and work according to spiritual powers. Coronavirus will definitely leave India as soon as the Ram temple is built,” Meena can be heard saying in the clip.

Meena’s statement comes days after Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal had launched the ‘Bhabhi ji papad‘, which he claimed had ingredients that boosted one’s immunity and would help fight the novel coronavirus.

Earlier, Assam BJP MLA Suman Haripriya had said that gobar and gaumutra (cow dung and cow urine) could be a potential cure for Covid-19. Similarly, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had stated that yoga could be a potential cure for the novel coronavirus.

Meena is also not the first person to draw a connection between Covid-19 and the Ram temple. In an interview with the ANI, Madhya Pradesh Assembly Pro tem Speaker Rameshwar Sharma had said that construction of the Ram temple would destroy the coronavirus.

“He [Ram] had reincarnated for the welfare of mankind and to kill demons…as soon as the construction of Ram Temple begins, the destruction of the Covid-19 pandemic will begin too,” Sharma had said.

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BJP MP from Bhopal Pragya Singh Thakur has encouraged people to chant the hanuman chalisa from 25 July to 4 August (duration of the lockdown in Bhopal) five times every day at 7.00 pm.

Speaking about building the Ram Temple, she also asked people to light a lamp and offer aarti to Lord Ram on 5 August to defeat the coronavirus.

Ram Temple

In November 2019, the Supreme Court had settled the contentious Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute by ordering the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The court had allotted another piece of land for the construction of a mosque.

The bhoomi pujan (laying of the foundation stone) of the temple at Ayodhya will be on 5 August and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in attendance.

The construction work is slated to begin shortly after the ceremony and the temple’s trust has set a deadline of 2024 for its completion.

 

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