“First-Person account: Being in Ayodhya for Pran Pratishtha on January 22”, Swarajyamag, January 27, 2024:
“As the sun began to set on 22 January, I exited the Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya. Passing through an ornately decorated gate about 300 meters from the temple’s inner sanctum, the ‘garbha griha’, I saw queues of tens of thousands of devotees lining both sides of the road.
Policemen were omnipresent, trying to prevent the crowds from spilling onto the roads. No autorickshaws were operating, and so I proceeded to walk to my hotel, located about 1.5 kilometres away.
In a gesture that left me bewildered, individuals from the queue stepped out to touch my feet. A man explained, “Having had darshan of Ram Lalla, you are divine to us…..”
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