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Prime Minister Pandit Kalikram handed erstwhile Faizabad district, now Narendra Modi will lay the over a green colour dress along rechristened as Ayodhya by the foundation stone on with a religious flag to the head Yogi Adityanath Government, Wednesday. priest of the Ram Lalla temple he never went to these temples “The foundation stone Acharya Satendra Das, which to avoid any controversy. function will start at 12.30 pm Ram Lalla will wear on Modi will also be the first and the shila (stone) will be laid Wednesday. Ram Lalla will wear Prime Minister to visit Ram between 12.44 and 12.45 pm a yellow dress on Thursday ." A( ) - Janmabhoomi Complex. after offering prayers to Lord Pandit Kalikaram has been !B A ! ! Earlier, Jawaharlal Nehru and ! ( Ganesha,” Champat Rai, gen- presenting the dresses for the ❝ ( )= Indira Gandhi had come to eral secretary of the Ram idols for the last two years. He 8! $( Faizabad but did not offer Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra will also light diyas at almost all ! ! ! prayers at RJB Complex. Trust told this reporter. the temples of Ayodhya in the " -> ) O ==> The PM will fly from New The PM will lay a 40-kg sil- evening of August 5. , 866 Delhi at 0935 hours on ver brick to symbolise the start The city has been turned # !) Wednesday morning by a spe- of construction of the Ram into a fortress with barricades , N! O ! ) ! cial IAF aircraft and will reach Temple that is core to the rul- put up across the main thor- ) ! ! Lucknow at 1035 hrs. ing BJP’s ideology and poll oughfare of Ayodhya - partic- # Continued on Page 11 promises. A campaign for the ularly those lanes which con- temple marked the rise of the nect the city to Ram party to the national spotlight Janmabhoomi Complex. The in the 1990s. jawans of the paramilitary force " % @"-'; This diya is resplendent with Rai said that religious func- are deployed around the city. the love and affection of tions like different pujas have The shops are closed. The road ' ( ) day before bhoomi pujan, Rambhakts across the coun- started. These include side eateries have downed their AChief Minister Yogi try,” Yogi Adityanath wrote in Ramarchan Puja, where prayers shutters, but the local resi- Adityanath lit diyas and burnt his tweet in which he shared are held to invite all major gods dents are not complaining. '?;0?@4 performed in carrying out the "" * +, firecrackers as a part of a picture of lighting a diya on and goddesses who consider “Our movements have been Ram Rath Yatra from Somnath Deepotasava ahead of the Tuesday evening. Lord Ram as their Ishth (the restricted for two days but we ot invited to attend the to Ayodhya in 1990. @"-'; Governments, the manipula- foundation stone laying cere- The chief minister had god of worship). Vedic saints are not complaining. This is an NRam Mandir bhoomi A day before Prime tions by political forces and the mony for the construction of earlier asked the people not to are conducting the prayers fac- indicator of good things to pujan ceremony in Ayodhya on Minister Narendra Modi lays ishwa Hindu Parishad long delays in the courts. Ram temple in Ayodhya. come to Ayodhya for the ing Ramlalla on his temporary come. We will have our own Wednesday, the architect of the the foundation stone for a V(VHP) president Alok “It is after about 31 years The 5 Kalidas Marg offi- August 5 function and instead seat, Rai said. Ram Temple after almost five Ram temple movement and Ram temple in Ayodhya, Kumar has claimed the foun- that the construction of the cial residence of the chief light diyas at their homes on A total of 21 priests from centuries. And for that why will veteran BJP leader LK Advani Advani said in a statement it is dation stone for the construc- temple shall now begin in the minister was lit up with diyas the evenings of August 4 and Varanasi, Ayodhya, and one complain,” Dilip Maurya, on Tuesday reminisced his role his belief that the Ram Mandir tion of a grand Ram Temple at presence of Prime Minister and rangolis made of flower 5. The joy was reflected in Prayagraj started the ritual of who owns Maurya Tea Stall near in “galvanise the aspirations, will represent India as a strong, the birthplace of Lord Shri Narendra Modi on August 5. petals and colours. The chief Ayodhya where people lit 3.51 Bhoomi Pujan by organising Ghantaghar, said. There is an air energies and passions of its prosperous, peaceful Ram was laid way back in We hope that in about three minister along with his staff lit lakh diyas at the bank of the Gauri Ganesh Puja at the of festivity around Ayodhya. countless participants of the and harmonious nation with 1989, and on August 5 just the years’ time, the devotees may be diyas. river Saryu on Tuesday Bhoomi Pujan site on the Ram Religious songs or the chanting movement.” justice for all and exclusion of construction work will start. able to worship Ramlala in the “A day before the founda- evening. People also light Janmabhoomi premises. Priests of Sunderkand wafts through Claiming that it was a his- none to truly usher in “Ram Without taking any names, sanctum sanctorum of the tion stone for the construction diyas at their homes while are also performing puja at the the air as one drives through the toric and emotional day for Rajya, the epitome of good gov- he said the construction of the grand temple,” Kumar said in of Ram temple will be laid in sadhus and mahants light Hanumangarhi and Ram ki empty roads of Ayodhya. him and for all Indians, Advani ernance”. temple was embroiled in the a statement issued here. Ayodhya, the whole of India is diyas at the temples and the chavni temples and aarti at the Continued on Page 11 recalled the “pivotal duty” he See Page 3 hurdles created by various Continued on Page 11 elated over the development. muths. $%& ' ( ) ' *+% $ + - . /0/0 ! ',& % 1 ;,4'/#' ! #'E"1 Q "R$ '?;0?@4 ! "# n another huge blow to $% ! he Bihar Government on Tuesday recom- " hinese mobile phone com- IIndian IT professionals eye- # & Tmended a CBI enquiry into actor Sushant Singh Cpany Vivo is likely to pull ing the US job market, ! ! ! Rajput’s death case, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ." " "1 out as the IPL’s title sponsor for President Donald Trump has " ' &# said, a move contested by Rhea Chakraborty’s this year and is in talks with the signed an executive order ask- ( !! lawyer, who insisted the State had no jurisdiction mid indirect insinuations being made at BCCI for an “amicable separa- ing federal agencies to hire ! to make such a recommendation. Ahim by the BJP-led Opposition on issues tion” amid rising Sino-India Americans and preventing !$% As Patna and Mumbai Police were locked in a relating to actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s alleged diplomatic tensions. them from contracting or sub- ) & bitter turf war over who had the mandate of law to suicide, Maharashtra’s influential Minister The one year pullout could contracting foreign workers, # )! $% investigate the sensational death of Rajput, Nitish Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday slammed oppo- be treated as a moratorium mainly those with H-1B visas. L ) ! $%K earlier said his Government will recommend nents for indulging in “dirty politics” and period and if the relations The move came over a ! K handing over the case to the central probe agency “maligning” him and his family, and categori- improve, BCCI may look at month after the Trump admin- ( after the actor’s father gave his consent. cally said he has nothing to do with Sushant’s inking a fresh three-year deal istration on June 23 suspend- the federal government lives by programmes and destroy "',- &M KK Singh, Rajput’s father, had on July 25 lodged suicide. with the company from 2021 to ed the H-1B visas along with a very simple rule, hire American jobs,” said Trump, # ( ) a police complaint against Chakraborty, a budding Aaditya’s statement came on a day when 2023. The IPL will be held in other types of foreign work American,” Trump told who was surrounded across the / & actor and his son’s rumoured girlfriend, of abetting Maharashtra’s former Chief Minister and BJP’s the UAE from September 19 to visas until the end of 2020 to reporters in the Oval Office of Cabinet Room table with indi- his suicide, keeping him in wrongful confinement Rajya Sabha member Narayan Rane alleged that November 10 this year.
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