Ram temple to soon be ready; embrace Sanskrit: Modi in Madhya Pradesh

Modi said that the country was now focused on harnessing both development and its ancient traditions

Updated on: Oct 28, 2023, 24:30:37 IST

By Shruti Tomar, Bhopal

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the Ram temple in Ayodhya, for which seers had contributed both inside and outside court would “soon be ready”, and that while India became independent in 1947, the country did not lose the “mentality of the colonised” and continued to harbor hatred towards sacred languages like Sanksrit. The Prime Minister was speaking at Tulsi Peeth, a religious organisation set up by Jagadguru Rambhadracharya in Madhya Pradesh’s Chitrakoot, twenty days before the state goes to the polls on November 17. Prime Minister Modi said that the Ram temple in Ayodhya was the dream of “every countryman” and that Jagadguru Rambhadracharya had played a big role in fulfilling this dream. “The Ram temple for which you have contributed so much, in and outside the court, is about to be ready,” he said. This comes days after Modi accepted an invitation from the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust for a ceremony on January 22, 2024 where the idol of the lord Rama will be placed inside the sanctum sanctorum of the temple.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Chouhan and others at Kanch Mandir, in Chitrakoot. (ANI)

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Modi said that the country was now focused on harnessing both development and its ancient traditions. “We became independent, but those who did not lose the mentality of the colonised continued to harbor hatred towards Sanskrit…Whatever national dimension you look at in India, you will witness Sanskrit’s contribution. Sanskrit is not only the language of traditions, it is also the language of our progress and modernity”, he said.

The Prime Minister said that several attempts were made to attack India for a thousand years that included attacks on the Sanskrit language. “If people know their mother tongue, other countries will also appreciate it. But there are some that consider knowledge in Sanskrit a sign of backwardness,” he said.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shruti Tomar
I have spent over a decade chronicling Madhya Pradesh’s political and social landscape, covering politics, investigative journalism, crime, human interest, and government policy, blending sharp insight with ground‑level depth. I have closely tracked three assembly elections, three Lok Sabha elections, leadership transitions in MP while exposing governance lapses, tender irregularities, and flawed policy rollouts. My reports have revealed gaps in the Cheetah project, irregularities in medical education, rigging in recruitment exams, and loopholes in policy implementation. In crime reporting, I have moved beyond FIRs to map systemic patterns — from organised crime networks and gender‑based violence to custodial accountability — balancing urgency with sensitivity. My journalism is defined by a commitment to human interest. I have profiled the marginalised Bancchda community, documented atrocities against tribal groups, and highlighted efforts to preserve their culture through heritage liquor and revival of spiritual practices. I have reported on farmers struggling with failed MSP promises, giving voice to those often reduced to statistics in policy files. Passionate about field reporting, I have reported on rampant sand mining in Chambal and Narmada, pharmaceutical companies supplying medicines under altered names, the dire condition of schools and colleges, the plight of commercial sex workers, and skewed sex ratios in specific districts. Beyond deadlines, and as HT’s state correspondent and assistant editor in Madhya Pradesh, I engage with ministers, farmers, students, and activists, believing the best policy stories begin with a single human voice. A postgraduate in Journalism and Mass Communication, I also hold a diploma in sports journalism.Read More

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