PM Modi Lights Diyas, Celebrates Diwali After Ram Temple Pran Pratishtha

New Delhi:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi lit diyas at his residence in Delhi Monday night – to have fun an early Diwali – hours after he led the ‘pranpratishtha‘ of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.

Visuals confirmed a stern-looking Mr Modi, with a yellow scarf wrapped round his shoulders, lighting diyas and elaborate bronze lamps, and worshipping cut-outs of the Ram Lalla idol.

The photographs had been shared by the Prime Minister on X with the caption “Ram Jyoti”. The lighting of diyas is supposed to recreate how Ram’s topics welcomed his return after his 14-year exile.

रामज्योति! #RamJyotipic.twitter.com/DTxg2QquTT

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 22, 2024

Earlier right this moment, after the ‘pran pratishtha‘ ceremony, for which the Prime Minister reportedly ready by sleeping on the ground and consuming/ingesting solely coconut water for 11 days, known as on all Indians to mark Diwali this night to “welcome Lord Ram into your property”.

“Immediately, Ram Lalla has been seated in his grand temple in Ayodhya. On this auspicious event, I request everybody to mild the Ram Jyoti and welcome him in your houses too. Jai Siya Ram…”

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Addressing a crowd of a number of thousand, together with high-profile Bollywood and sporting celebrities, after the consecration, the Prime Minister stated the set up of the Ram Lalla marked the start of a brand new period, and that building of the temple had stuffed individuals with a “new vitality”.

“Lord Ram has lastly arrived (in his abode) following a wait of centuries. After the persistence that we confirmed for hundreds of years, and the sacrifices we made, our Lord Ram has lastly arrived,” he declared, proclaiming right this moment “the start of an period” and that India had “damaged the shackles of slavery”.

अयोध्या धाम में आज राम लला अपने भव्य मंदिर में विराजमान हुए हैं। इस पुनीत अवसर पर सभी देशवासियों से मेरा आग्रह है कि रामज्योति प्रज्वलित कर अपने घरों में भी उनका स्वागत करें। जय सियाराम! #RamJyotipic.twitter.com/jllwCKNaym

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 22, 2024

Drawing on the feelings of the second, the PM additionally stated he had “sought Lord Ram’s forgiveness for the delay in setting up the temple”, which has been constructed the place a sixteenth century mosque was raised by Hindu right-wing members in 1992, triggering a spate of communal violence and killings.

The inexperienced mild for the temple was lastly given by the Supreme Court docket in November 2019. The courtroom acknowledged the Muslim aspect had been wronged however relied on an archaeological report – which claimed a pre-existing construction beneath the mosque – to rule in favour of the Hindu teams.

In his speech the Prime Minister supplied the judiciary a shout-out, saying, “I want to thank the judiciary that delivered justice and (allowed) Lord Ram’s temple was inbuilt a authorized method…”

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In the meantime, in Ayodhya, after the ‘pran pratishtha‘ ritual that lasted 84 seconds, Mr Modi additionally visited the Kuber Tila on the temple premises and supplied prayers to Lord Shiva. He additionally unveiled a statue of Jatayu, the legendary chook killed by Ravana whereas making an attempt to avoid wasting Sita, additionally on the temple premises.

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The opening of the temple – the center of a decades-long political storm – has been cold-shouldered by a lot of the opposition, together with the Congress, the Trinamool, and the Samajwadi Celebration, all of whom have accused the BJP of gaining political mileage from faith on an election yr.

The BJP has hit again, censuring all who declined the invite, together with the Congress’ Mallikarjun Kharge and Sonia Gandhi, as anti-Hindu.

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The occasion has additionally drawn different controversies – together with the one involving the shankaracharyas, or heads, of 4 premier monasteries. The Puri and Joshimath shankaracharyas criticised the consecration of an incomplete temple and claimed the occasion had been given a political angle.

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