Updated: November 14, 2020 7:52:39 am
CM Yogi Adityanath and Governor Anandiben Patel with dressed artists like Lord Ram, Sita and Lakshman in Ayodhya – A world record was set on Friday, with over 5.8 lakh diyas lit. (Express photo by Vishal Srivastav)
As Ayodhya celebrated his fourth Deepotsava, setting a world record by lighting more than 5.84 lakhs of earth lamps (diyas) in one place, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the people of the city had suffered much “injustice and humiliation “to get a Great Ram temple built. He promised to put Ayodhya on the map “as a Vedic city”.
“There has been much injustice and humiliation for Ayodhya, who gives salvation to both birth and life. But now this will not happen. Ayodhya will get her long lost pride. We will make it glorious on the world map as a Vedic city, ”Adityanath said in his address to Hindu saints and devotees of Ram after the symbolic coronation of the Hindu deity Ram amid chants of priests.
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The prime minister said that his government would restore all the holy sites in the city. This was the first Deepotsava festival since the beginning of the construction of the Ram temple. Adityanath claimed that previous people were hesitant to visit Ayodhya and there was a time when even taking the city’s name “was like abuse.” Now everyone wants to visit the city, he added.
At night, more than 5.84 lakh diyas were lit at Ram ki Paidi, a series of ghats on the bank of the Saryu River, as the government broke its own Guinness World Record set in previous years. Thousands of volunteers from the Department of Tourism, Ayodhya District Administration and RML Avadh University lit the clay lamps. Adityanath announced that next year the administration would aim to light more than 7.51 lakh diyas.
Expressing his desire to connect the event with the entire country and the world, Adityanath said that all Indians celebrate Diwali and all Sanatan Hindus connect with the festival and Deepotsava.
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“Several generations ended and they all had a single wish that if they got to see the construction of Lord Ram’s temple, their life would be forced … Until last year, whenever he used to come to Ayodhya, he used to come to connect it with works. developmental. But there was always only one voice that he should not talk about the work, but only build the temple in Ayodhya. PM Modi has fulfilled that oath of the country, ”said the prime minister.
Earlier in the day, Adityanath visited the Ram Janmabhoomi temple and prayed to the deity Ram Lalla. It also released a special cover made collectively by the state postal department and RML Avadh University. The information department also screened a short film about the Deepotsava event.
He said that Deepotsav was an effort to carry forward the concept of Ram Rajya, which he said was a symbol of a society without discrimination. .
Adityanath said that Ram had to suffer greatly on the Van Gaman Trail, the path that devotees believe the deity took while en route to a 14-year exile, adding that his government is now working to improve facilities at the “Ram Van Gaman Camino. “Soon, people will be able to travel from Ayodhya to Chitrakoot in three and a half hours, he added.
Governor Anandiben Patel, also present at the event, said that Ram was a symbol of Indian identity.
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