CHIEF Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday unveiled a statue of Lord Ram at Ayodhya Shodh Sansthan here.The seven-foot-tall statue of Lord Ram made from a single block of rosewood and purchased from Karnataka depicts Kodand Ram- one of the five forms of Lord Ram. Adityanath visited galleries and released books and a postal cover at the Ayodhya Shodh Sansthan museum after unveiling the statue.

 

He also released a special cover on the Kodand statue of Lord Ram by the Postal department, ‘Archaeological Report of Ayodhya’, ‘Ramleela journey of the Carribean countries’ and two other books.The Chief Minister presented the honour to sculptors, painters and writers at the museum and admitted a document titled ‘World tours of Lord Ram’ by Jitendra Kumar, Principal Secretary of the Culture Department.

 

Yogi Adityanath offered prayers at the makeshift Ram Lalla temple here, on a visit meant to reiterate support for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya. “It is everybody’s wish that Ram Mandir must be constructed,” he said on his first trip to the temple town after the Lok Sabha elections. He also took part in celebrations to mark the birthday of Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas chief Mahant Nritya Gopal Das.

 

The Chief Minister also visited the Hanumangarhi temple and inspected a pump house being constructed at the banks of the Saryu river.He thanked Ayodhya’s seers for their “blessings” that helped the Bharatiya Janata Party get a second term at the Centre.