“Fortunate to celebrate Ram Navami in Ayodhya after waiting for 5 centuries”: PM

The festival of Ram Navami is being celebrated with great pomp across the country today. Crowds of devotees are gathering in the temples. This is the first Ram Navami after the consecration of Lord Ram in Ayodhya temple. On this occasion, lakhs of people are reaching Ayodhya. On the occasion of Shri Ram Navami, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a post and said, this is the first Ram Navami, when our Ram Lala has been seated in the grand and divine Ram temple of Ayodhya. Today Ayodhya is in immense joy in this festival of Ram Navami. After waiting for 5 centuries, today we have got the good fortune to celebrate Ram Navami in this way in Ayodhya. This is the result of so many years of hard penance, renunciation and sacrifice of the countrymen.

This will be the first Ram Navami after the consecration of the idol of Lord Ram in the new temple in the consecration ceremony by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22 in Ayodhya.

In another post, the PM wrote, Lord Shri Ram is present in every pore of the Indian people, is embedded in their inner soul...This occasion of the first Ram Navami of the Ram Temple is an occasion to remember and honor those innumerable Ram devotees and saints and Mahatmas. We also pay our respects to those who dedicated their entire lives to the construction of Ram temple.

On the occasion of Ramnavmi, Ramnavmi fair has started in Ayodhya Dham from 9th April, which is going to continue till the day of Ramnavmi i.e. 17th April. There is a possibility of 25 lakh devotees here. On the occasion of Ram Navami fair, the entire fair area has been divided into a total of 7 zones and 39 sectors. At the same time, the traffic system is being ensured by dividing it into 2 zones and 11 clusters.

For the security arrangements of the devotees in the entire fair area during the fair, 11 Additional Superintendents of Police, 26 Deputy Superintendents of Police, 150 Inspectors, 400 Sub Inspectors, 25 Women Sub Inspectors, 1305 Chief Constables/Constables, 270 Women Chief Constables/Constables, 15 Company PACs. Additional duty of 2 companies of flood relief, 1 team of SDRF and 1 team of ATS has been imposed. An Additional Superintendent of Police has been made in-charge of the police system in each zone and a Deputy Superintendent of Police/Inspector has been made the officer in-charge of each sector. Apart from this, security arrangements will be ensured by imposing 24X7 duty in the temple premises and the entire outer fair area.