Officials say it's just 'coincidence' that muhurat fell on CM's birthday. PM Modi had presided over consecration ceremony of Ram Lalla idol on ground-floor sanctum sanctorum last year.
With 4-5 lakh devotees expected to visit Ayodhya each day in coming weeks, ThePrint's Senior Photojournalist Suraj Singh Bisht captures how fervour swept over temple town.
The big-ticket Ram temple event in Ayodhya was a subject of grand celebrations in national capital Delhi. But there were no reports of tensions as happened in Mumbai’s Mira Road.
This comes hours after Congress MP's yatra was reportedly stopped from entering Guwahati, prompting incensed party workers to smash barricades and clash with police.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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