Ayodhya: Congress veteran leader Digvijaya Singh’s fresh statement has erupted in a new controversy that has hurt the sentiments of the people ahead of the grand Pran Pratishtha ceremony of the Ram Temple. He stated that Ram Lalla’s idol seated in the temple does not look like a child. Reacting to the controversial remark, Hanumangarhi temple priest Mahant Raju Das stated on Friday that Singh has always been anti-Ram and found faults in everything.
“All the idols will remain there only. Because the idol was in ‘Bal Swaroop’ (toddler form), people faced difficulty in ‘Darshan’. So the trust tried to give it magnificence. The main issue was the Janmabhoomi. There is no scarcity of temples in Ayodhya. I want to tell people like Digvijaya Singh, who tried to divide society on the basis of caste, to come to Ayodhya and look at the temples… There are Ram Janaki temples by kings and rulers from all castes… He (Digvijaya Singh) has always been anti-Ram. He has been finding faults in everything since the beginning..,” Raju Das said.
#WATCH | Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh: On Congress leader Digvijaya Singh’s statement, Hanumangarhi temple priest Mahant Raju Das says, “All the idols will remain there only. Because the idol was in ‘Bal Swaroop’ (toddler form), people faced difficulty in ‘Darshan’. So the trust tried… pic.twitter.com/kx3b4ktbm3
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Recently, Singh stated that Lord Ram’s idol should be in the form of a child. “I have been saying this from the beginning, where is the idol of Ram Lalla whose idol was controversial and destroyed? What was the need for the second statue? Our Guru Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Ji Maharaj had also suggested that the idol of Lord Ram in the Ram Janmabhoomi temple should be in the form of a child and should be in the lap of Mother Kaushalya. But the idol that is being seated in the temple does not look like a child,” Singh wrote on X on Friday.
It is worth noting that, ahead of the grand Pran Pratishtha ceremony on January 22, Lord Ram’s idol was placed inside the sanctum sanctorum of the historic temple on Thursday.
The first picture of the idol, which is covered with a veil, was revealed during the placement ceremony on Thursday.
The beautiful idol was carved by artist Arun Yogiraj – a famous sculptor from Karnataka. Lord Ram’s Idol is 51 inches tall and weighs 1.5 tonnes and it showcased the lord as a five-year-old child standing on a lotus also crafted from the same stone.
Meanwhile, Ayodhya is all decorated with lights and vibrant flowers on Thursday in preparation for the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony scheduled on January 22.
The grand ceremony will be held in Ayodhya on January 22 during which PM Modi will perform holy rituals of the ‘Pran Pratishtha’. Priest Lakshmikant Dixit will lead the main rituals. Several celebrities and prominent personalities have also been invited to the grand ceremony.
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