NEW DELHI: In line with the suggestion made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP has planned a week-long cleanliness campaign at temples and pilgrimages across the country culminating in “Diwali celebrations” on January 22, the day when consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya will take place.
In his address during a recent visit to Ayodhya, Modi had appealed to launch a “Swachh Bharat” campaign from Makar Sankranti (January 14) to January 22, the day scheduled for the consecration ceremony.
The party will involve all its elected representatives including MPs, MLAs and panchayat representatives to execute the campaign for which the party functionaries have been assigned the task to identify places of worship where the cleanliness campaign ahead of the consecration ceremony will be launched.
Party president J P Nadda has written a letter to all state party presidents to make plans in this regard. He has also called a meeting of senior party functionaries on January 6 to take stock of the party’s preparations to amplify the consecration ceremony, which the party says, is happening after a “long wait of over 500 years”, a period that has witnessed a long legal battle and sacrifices of several people belonging to the ideology. “The party should conduct special cleanliness campaigns in all the pilgrimage areas. Special cleanliness campaigns should also be conducted in the areas around temples and places of worship. Sweeping, cleaning plastic, keeping dustbins, using limestone should be focused on,” BJP general secretary Arun Singh, on behalf of the party president, has mentioned in the letter sent to state party chiefs.
“Shri Ram Ji’s temple will become a modern symbol of our culture, it will become a symbol of our eternal faith, it will become a symbol of our national spirit and this temple will also become a symbol of the collective power of crores of people, this temple will inspire faith and determination for the coming generations,” the letter states, quoting the Prime Minister.
The party has maintained that the “Pran Pratishta” (consecration) of Ram Lalla in the Ram temple will be performed in the “Abhijit Muhurat” (auspicious time) with divinity and grandeur in the presence of the PM on January 22.
In his address during a recent visit to Ayodhya, Modi had appealed to launch a “Swachh Bharat” campaign from Makar Sankranti (January 14) to January 22, the day scheduled for the consecration ceremony.
The party will involve all its elected representatives including MPs, MLAs and panchayat representatives to execute the campaign for which the party functionaries have been assigned the task to identify places of worship where the cleanliness campaign ahead of the consecration ceremony will be launched.
Party president J P Nadda has written a letter to all state party presidents to make plans in this regard. He has also called a meeting of senior party functionaries on January 6 to take stock of the party’s preparations to amplify the consecration ceremony, which the party says, is happening after a “long wait of over 500 years”, a period that has witnessed a long legal battle and sacrifices of several people belonging to the ideology. “The party should conduct special cleanliness campaigns in all the pilgrimage areas. Special cleanliness campaigns should also be conducted in the areas around temples and places of worship. Sweeping, cleaning plastic, keeping dustbins, using limestone should be focused on,” BJP general secretary Arun Singh, on behalf of the party president, has mentioned in the letter sent to state party chiefs.
“Shri Ram Ji’s temple will become a modern symbol of our culture, it will become a symbol of our eternal faith, it will become a symbol of our national spirit and this temple will also become a symbol of the collective power of crores of people, this temple will inspire faith and determination for the coming generations,” the letter states, quoting the Prime Minister.
The party has maintained that the “Pran Pratishta” (consecration) of Ram Lalla in the Ram temple will be performed in the “Abhijit Muhurat” (auspicious time) with divinity and grandeur in the presence of the PM on January 22.