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New Delhi: After a long wait, the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh will open its gates for the world tomorrow, on January 22 after the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha. The Consecration Ceremony will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other important dignitaries of the country. While only guests and other authorised vehicles are allowed to enter the city on January 22, the residents of the country, who cannot be present, will be able to experience the grand event through live telecast. In a latest news update, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman alleged in a social media post that special poojas, mass feeding programmes for Lord Rama and live telecast of the Pran Pratishtha has been banned in Tamil Nadu. The DMK government has now responded to the Finance Minister’s social media post…
As mentioned earlier, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in a series of posts on the social media platform ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter), alleged that the DMK government in Tamil Nadu had put a ban on the live telecast of the Pran Pratishtha on Jan 22 and had also stopped pooja and mass feeding programmes in the name of Lord Rama. The Finance Minister also shared a newspaper clipping that spoke of the ‘ban’.
The Finance Minister, in her tweets said, “In HR & CE managed temples no puja/bhajan/prasadam/annadanam in the name of Shri Ram is allowed. Police are stopping privately held temples also from organising events. They are threatening organisers that they will rip off pandals. Strongly condemn this anti-Hindu, hateful action.”
She further alleged “Heart-breaking scenes in several parts of TN. People are threatened for organising bhajans, feeding the poor, celebrating with sweets even as we wish to watch Honourable PM Narendra Modi participate in Ayodhya… This is I.N.D.I.A Alliance partner DMK’s anti-Hindu efforts.” The newspaper article shared by Sitharaman was published by a Tamil daily which is said to be right-wing’ed called Dinamalar.
Responding to these allegations, PK Sekarbabu, the HR & CE Minister has refuted the claims made by the Finance Minister and has said that it is unfortunate that someone like Nirmala Sihtaraman, who holds a ‘high position’ was spreading news which is ‘blatantly false and fake’. Sekarbabu further said, “The HR & CE department has not imposed any ban on devotees to organise special pujas, annadanam, or distribute prasadam in the name of Lord Ram.”
According to Sekarbabu, these claims were made to ‘divert people’s attention’ from the Youth Wing Conference of DMK taking place in Salem.
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