By Our National Affairs Bureau
AYODHYA/LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday Celebrated Diwali as Prime Minister Narendra Modi Modi sat for Lord Sri Ram Temple’s Bhoomi Pujan in Ayodhya .
“Congratulations to all on the launch of Ram-Mandir construction!The temple of Maryada Purushottam Prabhu Ram is being constructed in accordance with the justice process and with the enthusiasm of the public and social harmony.I believe that the temple complex will become a symbol of modern India based on the ideals of Ramrajya,” tweeted President Ram Nath Kovind.
Modi offered prayers and laid the foundation stone for a grand temple at the site believed to be the birthplace of Lord Ram in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya. The groundbreaking ceremony marks the formal launch of the temple’s construction promised by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party nearly three decades earlier.
LK Advani, 92, and Murli Manohar Joshi, 86, the two BJP stalwarts who had led the campaign to build the temple in its early days, are said to have watched the live telecast of the event because of the coronavirus pandemic. Home Minister Amit Shah, from his bed in a Gurugram hospital where the 55-year-old top BJP leader was admitted last week due to the virus.
