Ayodhya spectacle for Ram’s homecoming
Ayodhya spectacle for Ram’s homecoming

Ayodhya spectacle for Ram’s homecoming

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Lord Ram’s abode Ayodhya is all decked up for Wednesday’s Deepotsav when the temple town will sparkle with 12 lakh diyas.
LUCKNOW: Amid the glitter of 9 lakh diyas on the last Deepotsav in Ayodhya before the UP assembly elections due early next year, the temple town is likely to set the political discourse on the festival of lights.
The address of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Deepotsav on Wednesday is likely to revolve around Hindutva and politics.
A laser show was organised on the banks of Saryu on Tuesday


A lot has already been said about Lord Ram and ‘Ram Bhakts’ (devotees of Ram) in the recent past. Most of the political parties have either kicked off their poll campaign from Ayodhya or have been talking about the deity and the temple town.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra had kickstarted the series of ‘prabuddh sammelans’, focusing on Brahmins, from Ayodhya.
Invoking the deity, he had said that Ram is not the copyright of the BJP and he belonged to everyone.
Similarly, Aam Admi Party (AAP) leaders have also been to Ayodhya on several occasions. After AAP’s Sanjay Singh, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal had recently visited Ayodhya and attended the ‘aarti’ at Saryu Ghat.
Politics notwithstanding, Deepotsav will hog limelight otherwise too because of the sheer number of diyas that would be lit on Wednesday.
Around 9 lakh diyas will be lit this time breaking the last year’s record of 6 lakh earthen lamps. Officials in Ayodhya said a team from the Guinness Book of World Records has already reached the temple town. As many as 12,000 volunteers have been pressed into service to light diyas. Each volunteer has been assigned the task of lighting 75 diyas.
The temple town became the hub of activities after the Supreme Court paved way for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
On August 5, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the construction of Ram temple at the spot which remained a disputed site for over five centuries. The BJP, which had been promising the construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya in all its manifestos, has been claiming it to be a big victory. However, months before the UP polls, opposition parties are finding it difficult to stay away from Hindutva agenda.
During his recent visit to Lucknow, Union home minister Amit Shah had strongly propped up the Hindutva agenda by claiming that the BJP ended the centuries’ old dispute around Ram temple in Ayodhya and Yogi Adityanath would carry forward the party’s agenda.
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