ALL IN THE NAME OF RAM
he fifth edition of the ‘Deepotsav’, organised in Ayodhya on the occasion of Chhoti Deepavali, also had Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath issuing the clarion call for the 2022 assembly election from the stage. His words dispelled all doubt that the BJP campaign will have a keen Hindutva edge. Referring to an incident from November 2, 1990, when the Ram Janmabhoomi movement was at its peak and the police had fired on after clashes in Ayodhya, he took a dig at the then chief minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav: “The day is not far when he at the Ram temple being built in Ayodhya. Next time, when the is held, not bullets but flowers will be showered on the devotees of Ram.”
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