Ayodhya on Wednesday celebrated ‘Deepotsav-2024’ with grandeur as 1000’s of individuals gathered alongside the banks of the Sarayu river to have a good time Diwali.
That is the primary Deepotsav celebration for the reason that consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in January this 12 months. Comply with LIVE updates right here.
Two Guinness World data have been additionally created through the celebrations. The primary award was introduced for the most individuals performing the ‘diya’ rotation concurrently.
The second award was for the show of 25,12,585 oil lamps, which was achieved by the Division of Tourism, Authorities of Uttar Pradesh, District Administration, Ayodhya. Each awards have been received by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
The 25 lakh diyas have been positioned and lit alongside the banks of the Saryu River, creating a panoramic spectacle, symbolising the triumph of sunshine over darkness and fostering a spirit of unity.
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- UP CM Yogi Adityanath led the celebrations, pulling a chariot carrying artists portraying Lord Ram, Sita, and Lakshman, symbolising Lord Ram’s return to Ayodhya.
- Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, together with Deputy CMs Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya, was additionally current through the celebrations.
- Flowers have been showered from a helicopter on the artists enacting the roles of Lord Ram, Lakshman, and Sita.
- Adityanath additionally mentioned that this was a second to recollect all these souls who had devoted their lives in direction of the Ram Janmabhoomi motion.
- “I bow to all these saints on this event, and to the martyrs”, round 3,50,000 in quantity,” who laid down their lives with one want as they left this world: that, irrespective of the fee, even on the worth of their sacrifice, a temple for Lord Ram have to be constructed on the soil of Ayodhya,” Adityanath mentioned.
- In the meantime, Samajwadi Social gathering chief and Faizabad’s MP, Awadhesh Prasad, mentioned on Wednesday that the Ayodhya administration did not invite him to the Deepotsav occasion.
- Accusing the BJP authorities of “politicising festivals”, Prasad mentioned: “I prolong my greetings to all residents of Ayodhya on the event of Diwali. I contemplate it my luck that I used to be elected from right here. BJP is politicising our festivals too. I hope this can be a pageant of brotherhood. BJP is politicising this pageant and dividing individuals. I’ve not acquired a move or invitation to Deepotsav,” he informed ANI.
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