PM Modi Ayodhya Ram Mandir flag hoisting: ‘History has been made in Ayodhya', says PM after Dhwajarohan ceremony

PM Modi Ayodhya Ram Mandir flag hoisting: The flag was placed on a “shikhar” built in the traditional North Indian Nagara style.

PM Modi Ayodhya Ram Mandir flag hoisting: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoisted the saffron flag atop the 191-foot-high ‘shikhar’ of Ayodhya Ram Temple. He later addressed the gathering. The Dharma Dhwaj, measuring ten feet in height and twenty feet in length, bears the image of a radiant Sun, with an ‘Om’ inscribed on it along with the image of the Kovidara tree.

Ayodhya Ram Mandir flag hoisting live | Key points

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the "wounds and pain" of centuries are healing as a 500-year-old resolve is finally being fulfilled after the formal completion of the Ram temple.
• He also urged people that if India is to become a developed nation by 2047, “we must awaken” the Ram within ourselves.
• He also said that we attained independence, but we could not free ourselves from the sense of inferiority. “India is the mother of democracy. Democracy is in our DNA,” he said.
• Modi also said the sacred flag would stand as a testament that "truth ultimately triumphs over falsehood," and congratulated Ram 'bhakts' along with all those who contributed to the construction of the temple.
• The flag was placed on a “shikhar” built in the traditional North Indian Nagara style, while the 800-metre Parkota that surrounds the temple follows designs from South India.
• The flag bears symbols of the Sun, representing Lord Ram’s Surya Vansh, Om, and the Kovidara tree, described as the state tree of Ram Rajya.
• The placing of the triangular flag marks the formal completion of the Ram Mandir after the consecration of Ram Lalla in the garbhagriha in January 2024.