After Ayodhya verdict, PM Modi to address the nation at 6 pm

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to emphasise on national unity and communal harmony in his address after the top court ruled in favour of building a temple at Ayodhya.

Updated on: Jul 20, 2020, 08:16:50 IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Shishir Gupta

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver an address to the nation at 6 pm post the Supreme Court judgment on Ayodhya and inauguration of Kartarpur corridor.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation at 6 pm(HT Photo)

According to government sources, the prime minister is expected to emphasise on national unity and communal harmony in his address after the top court ruled in favour of building a temple at Ayodhya. A constitution bench has also ordered the government to give the Muslim party, Sunni board, an alternative plot measuring 5 acres.

PM Modi, who had appealed for calm hours before the five judges reached the Supreme Court to pronounce the verdict, had later underlined that it highlights that any dispute can be amicably resolved in the spirit of due process of law.

“The halls of justice have amicably concluded a matter going on for decades. Every side, every point of view was given adequate time and opportunity to express differing points of view. This verdict will further increase people’s faith in judicial processes,” the prime minister had tweeted.

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PM Modi is also expected to refer to the opening of the Kartarpur corridor to mark 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. It would facilitate pilgrims to travel to Durbar Sahib gurdwara where Guru Nanak Dev spent his last years.

The top court’s ruling on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit was preceded by a nationwide security alert and massive security preparations in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh and beyond. Schools in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi were shut down as a precautionary measure.

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Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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