Apart from many free kitchens being run across Ayodhya, residents held bhandaras near the Ram Mandir to ensure that none of the devotees go back hungry
Sudhir Chaurasia has been supplying “paan” (betel) for the daily rituals of Ram Lalla in the makeshift temple for years but on Monday, he would deliver his biggest single order for the consecration rituals – 551 packs of betel leaves filled with gulkand and 50 other varieties of appurtenances.
Amidst the whispers of Amaniganj, the Jagmag ‘dharmshala’ emerges as a living testament to a love story that transcends the shackles of pre-independence times.
Sponsored by the Yogi Adityanath government, the initiative is timed to specially cater to women, more so in rural areas, where religion acts as a bridge past issues of caste and becomes a great unifying force of sorts.
BJP candidate Dara Singh Chauhan and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar were the two principal characters whose performance was on test in this bypoll. Both are OBC leaders and known turncoats.
Since 2002, the issue of sub-categorisation of OBCs based on their numerical strength within the larger caste grouping has kept cropping up nearer to the elections, only to fizzle out post polls