Ram Temple Will Be Witness to India's Progress, Golden Age of Development: PM Modi

The Ram Temple in Ayodhya will become a witness to India’s progress and emergence of a grand and developed India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the gathering the consecration of Ram Lalla in temple town on Monday.

“This grand Ram temple will become a witness to India’s progress, India’s rise. This grand Ram temple will become a witness to the emergence of a grand India, a developed India,” PM Modi said in a speech addressing around 10,000 participants in Ayodhya.

Ram Mandir is the temple of India’s vision, India’s philosophy, India’s guide, the PM said.

“Ram Temple’s construction is a reflection of Indian society’s maturity. It’s an occasion of not merely triumph but humility too,” PM Modi said. “India is now full of positive energy. It will attain prosperity by being guided by tradition, and modernity,” he added.

Army helicopters showered flower petals on the newly constructed Janmabhoomi temple as the ‘pran pratishtha’ ceremony took place -– a seminal occasion in India’s political and religious history.

He said that this is the golden age of India’s development and the country today is full of power because of the youths.

“Today our Lord Ram has come. After centuries of waiting, our Ram has arrived. After centuries of unprecedented patience, countless sacrifices, renunciations, and penances, our Lord Ram has arrived,” Modi said.

He further added that the today, it’s not just Ram Lalla idol which has consecrated, but it is also “the ‘pran pratishtha’ of unwavering faith in Indian culture as manifested in the form of Shri Ram.”

“From today, from this sacred time, we have to lay the foundation for the next 1,000 years. By moving ahead of building the temple, now we all take the oath of building a national, capable, successful, beautiful, and divine India,” he added.

He performed a series of rituals at the temple, with the ‘pran pratishtha’ taking place during the 84-second ‘Abhijeet muhurta’. At the end of the rituals, the PM prostrated himself before the idol, which depicts the child Ram.

The ceremony took place in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.