{"id":306040,"date":"2018-11-24T10:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T10:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306040"},"modified":"2018-11-24T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T10:11:45","slug":"shiv-sena-chief-uddhav-thackeray-reaches-ayodhya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shiv-sena-chief-uddhav-thackeray-reaches-ayodhya\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray reaches Ayodhya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306041 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/thackeray-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/thackeray-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/thackeray.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/thackeray-503x420.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shiv Sena chief\u00a0Uddhav Thackeray and his family on Saturday arrived in Ayodhya\u00a0for a two-day visit, to seek the darshan of Lord Ram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thackeray is scheduled to\u00a0visit the makeshift Ram Temple at 9 am on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thackeray will offer prayers at the Ram\u00a0janmabhoomi, participate in the\u00a0aarti\u00a0by the Sarayu river and speak to seers and saints. He is carrying soil from the Shivneri fort in Pune, the birthplace of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji, which will be handed over to the\u00a0priest at the\u00a0janmabhoomi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is expected to attend several events, batting for the early construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sunday\u2019s event, being organised by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), is the bigger of the two events. It is being called\u00a0&#8220;Dharma Sansad&#8221;. It is expected to be the largest gathering in the town since 1992, when thousands of Kar Sevaks had razed the Babri Masjid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Shiv Sena and the VHP are organising separate events in Ayodhya over the next 48 hours<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a bid to tackle the situation and avoid any untoward incident, security forces have been deployed in Ayodhya, located 120 km from state capital, Lucknow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shiv Sena&#8217;s Rajya Sabha lawmaker Sanjay Raut on Friday had\u00a0created a flutter by saying when Babri Masjid could be demolished in 17 minutes, why it was taking so long for a law to build a temple there. &#8220;We demolished the Babri Masjid in 17 minutes but for paper work why it is taking so much time for drafting a law or ordinance,&#8221; Raut had told reporters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reports said that over 2,000 Shiv Sena supporters are coming to Ayodhya in two trains from Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiv Sena chief\u00a0Uddhav Thackeray and his family on Saturday arrived in Ayodhya\u00a0for a two-day visit, to seek the darshan of Lord Ram. Thackeray is scheduled to\u00a0visit the makeshift Ram Temple at 9 am on Sunday. Thackeray will offer prayers at the Ram\u00a0janmabhoomi, participate in the\u00a0aarti\u00a0by the Sarayu river and speak to seers and saints. 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