Ayodhya: August 5 is going to be a historic day for Indias as the ground-breaking ceremony or the bhoomi pujan of Ram Temple in Ayodhya’s Ram Janmabhoomi will be done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The grand celebrations for the bhoomi pujan is scheduled to start at 8 am and PM Modi will perform bhoomi pujan at the auspicious time of 12:40 pm.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with CM Adityanath and 175 people who figure in a select guest list of seers and politicians will attend the ceremony.
Ayodhya has been lit up and huge CCTV screens have been set up across the holy city in order to allow the people to watch the ceremony live once it begins.
PM Modi will fly to Lucknow from New Delhi at 9.30 am on a special jet. After landing in Lucknow, he will board a chopper to Ayodhya.
PM Modi will land in Ayodhya at 11.30 am and will then offer prayers and perform a puja at the Hanumangarhi temple in Ayodhya.
Apart from PM Modi, the bhoomi pujan ceremony will be attended by Sri Ram Janambhoomi Teerath Kshetra Trust chairman Nritya Gopal Das, RSS chief Bhagwat, UP Governor Anandiben Patel and CM Yogi Adityanath.
Several important faces of the Ram Mandir movement such as Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Kalyan Singh and Uma Bharti will skip the ceremony due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. It is expected that they would join the celebrations via video conferencing.
Sanitisation has been done to Hanuman Garhi temple, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit today.
Ayodhya decked up
The temple town of Ayodhya that turned into an impregnable fortress ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival on Wednesday witnessed religious fervour like never before as almost every household in the temple town held rituals building up to the “bhumi pujan” ceremony at the Ram Janmabhoomi site later in the day.
Vasudev Tiwari, a resident of Shringaar Haat said: “We have prepared for the puja a week back. We are holding a recitation of Ram Charit Manas at our house.” As the 500 years of struggle comes to an end, the celebrations were also planned to live up to the occasion.
Likewise Arihant Kumar has decorated his home with fresh flowers and arranged for an uninterrupted recitation of Ramayana for three days. He said that the recitation started on Monday and will end with the Bhumi Pujan ceremony as it culminates.
Unlike other small temples, Hanumangarhi, the largest temple in Ayodhya has been decorated as the Prime Minister will pay a visit here ahead of the bhumi pujan ceremony. “Ram Bhakt” Lord Hanuman’s blessings will be sought ahead of the “silver brick laying ceremony” by the Prime Minister.
The buildings on both sides of the roads leading up to the Ran Janmabhoomi site have been painted yellow with drawing depicting various scenes from Ramayana. There is life size sketches of Lord Rama and Sita just in front of Saket college’s main gate. Modi will pass these streets as he arrives at the Saket college helipad and sets out for Ram Janambhoomi.
The three kilometre stretch has been decorated with fresh flowers.
