Seers from several major akhadas have already arrived at the campsite, including Atal Akhara, Mahanirvani Akhara, Niranjani Akhada, Ahwan Akhada, and Juna Akhada, the largest Akhada in the Sanyasi tradition.
The saints of Varanasi came out in support of Baba Bageshwar's Sanatan Ekta Padyatra. They said this is just the beginning and such journeys will be organised across the country. On the call of Baba Bageshwar, Peethadheeshwar Balak Das of Varanasi's Patalpuri Math extended his support by re
With seers and visitors from across the world streaming into Ayodhya ahead of the 'Pran Ptatishtha' of Shri Ram Lalla, Shanak Sanatan Das, a German ascetic, said the event on January 22 would involve a traditional approach.
Notably, a video went viral on Friday that showed a group of seers being purportedly stripped and assaulted by a mob in the Purulia district of West Bengal.
"Appeasement politics has created such an environment....The question is how Bengal is being driven by this appeasement politics. And why is there such anti-Hindu thinking?" Thakur said speaking to reporters on Saturday.
Amid Opposition claims that the Shankaracharyas of four Peeths have turned down invites to the 'Pran Pratishtha' of Shri Ram Lalla in Ayodhya, Vijayendra Saraswat Swamigal, the Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt at Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu, on Friday said the Yagyashala in Kashi
After a video went viral showing a group of seers being purportedly thrashed by a mob in the Purulia district, BJP leader and the party's IT Cell head, Amit Malviya, on Friday lashed out at the ruling Trinamool Congress, claiming that it was a crime to be Hindu in West Bengal.
PM Modi himself announced on Friday that he will commence a special 11-day 'anushthan' (ritual) ahead of the Pran Pratishtha ceremony at Ayodhya's Ram Temple.
Assam Police on Wednesday said it arrested a Congress MLA for allegedly making derogatory remarks about priests, Namgharias (residents of Namghariya village in the Dhemaji district) and seers.
Mentioning the incident of killing of seers, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Monday said that any incidents have taken place in Rajasthan and alleged that these killings are being done as part of a conspiracy.