City BJP to install big screens for live telecast of Ram temple pujan

DELHI BJP leaders and workers will join people in each of the 70 Assembly constituencies to watch the live broadcast of the ‘Bhumi Pujan’ on giant LED screens

The Delhi BJP will install giant LED screens across the city for people to watch groundbreaking ceremony for a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya on August 5, and will celebrate the occasion by lighting diyas, party leader Adesh Kumar Gupta said Thursday.

The Delhi BJP president said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be present during the ‘Bhumi Pujan’ ceremony in Ayodhya and it will be a “historic” occasion.

“The occasion will be remembered by the generations to come and it’s our duty to make this historic moment a glorious one,” Mr Gupta said in a statement.

Delhi BJP leaders and workers will join people in each of the 70 Assembly constituencies to watch the live broadcast of the ‘Bhumi Pujan’ on giant LED screens, he said. In the evening, party leaders will light earthen ‘diyas’ at their houses and also encourage their neighbours to do so to celebrate the occasion, he said.

The Delhi BJP will celebrate the day as a festival and ensure participation of a large number of people in it, the party’s general secretary Rajesh Bhatia said.

“The dream of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya is going to materialise after 500 years, on August 5. We are preparing to celebrate the day with the people of Delhi as Diwali,” he said.

Prime Minister Modi had in February announced in Lok Sabha the formation of a trust to construct Ram temple in Ayodhya, following the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram JanmabhoomiBabri Masjid case in November last year.

Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust has invited the prime minister to lay the foundation stone for a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Meanwhile, lord Ram’s images, 3D portraits of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya will be beamed across the giant billboards in the iconic Times Square to celebrate the groundbreaking ceremony of Ram Mandir on August 5.

Prominent community leader and president of the American India Public Affairs Committee Jagdish Sewhani said that arrangements are being made to celebrate the historic moment in New York on August 5, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay the foundation stone for construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

Mr Sewhani also said that among the prominent billboards that are being leased for the occasion are the giant Nasdaq screen and the 17,000square-foot wrap-around LED display screen, considered among the largest continuous exterior displays in the world and the highest-resolution exterior LED screen in Times Square.