Jaisalmer: Muslims perform yajna to celebrate Ayodhya ceremony

JAISALMER: Celebrating the foundation stone-laying ceremony of Ram temple at Ayodhya, about 50 Muslim families at Motisara village under Payla Kalla panchayat samiti in Barmer district performed yajna on Wednesday and set up a temple in the field.
Around 250 members of the 50 Dhadh Muslim Manganiyar caste families were present in the ritual. Apart from them, many Hindu saints were also present during the yajna.
Many of them have adopted Hinduism as their religion. One of the members, Subhanram, said that their ancestors were Hindus and he too has been practising Hindu religion for many years and celebrates Hindu festivals. According to one Harjiram of another family of Kanchan Dhadhi, for last many years, they are following Hindu traditions. On the occasion of the foundation stone-laying ceremony, they performed a havan and due to corona, they informed about the same to the sarpanch of their village. There are around a dozen temples of 50 families of Dhadhi community and names of all of their family members are from Hindu tradition.
During the yajna, a number of saints were present including Joganandji math head Balakanand Saraswati, Payla Kala priest Ram Bharti, Jeteshwar dham priest Paras Ram Maharaj, Vishwa Hindu Parishad Prantiya Pacharak chief Shailendra Singh Bhadoria, Dharam Jagran Manch’s Govind Singh Rathore, Motisara sarpanch Thakararam Saran, among several others.