Ayodhya screening goes off peacefully in TN on court intervention; in Bengaluru, CM opens Ram temple
DMK and BJP cadres on Monday after the Supreme Court allowed live telecast of the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha ceremony in Ayodhya. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and BJP State President K Annamalai had accused the MK Stalin administration of trying to scuttle the live screening of the rituals as well as poojas at local temples.
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View Details»Both the apex court and the Madras High Court heard urgent petitions from BJP leaders seeking relief, citing both oral and written orders from officials. The TN government told the apex court that there is no ban on live screening or holding special poojas at temples.
“The SC came very hard on the police and told them it was their duty to regulate any tensions, not ban… People are very happy that the police, which were using all the Draconian measures from morning, are all pulling back now… We have never seen a government interfering in people's religious faith like what DMK is doing now," Annamali told the media soon after the court orders.
The BJP always dealt with issues legally and would never take a wrong path, Sitharaman told the media at Kanchipuram, while thanking the courts for facilitating the live screening. She also watched the Sri Rama Keerthana recitation, Kamba Ramayana Upanyasam and ‘Pancharathna Keerthana’ at Sri Kamakshi Amman Temple in Kanchipuram. The connection between Kanchipuram and Ayodhya is also mentioned in the Brahmanda Purana and Garuda Purana," the FM's office said in a social media post.
Earlier in the morning, Governor RN Ravi said in a post on X: «This morning I visited Sri Kodanda Ramaswamy Temple, West Mambalam, Chennai, and offered prayers to Prabhu Sri Ram for the
