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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said "The OBC community has the power of Bajrangbali (Lord Hanuman), and the need is only to awaken them". Adityanath made the remarks while addressing the working committee meeting of the BJP's state unit of the 'pichhrha varg morcha', the UP government said in a statement. Addressing the gathering, Adityanath said, "In the past, the way foreign invaders had conspired to divide the Hindu society, similarly, opposition parties are also conspiring to make Hindu society fight among themselves in the name of pseudo-secularism. The OBC community has the power of Bajrangbali, they only need to be awakened." "It will not take long to burn Ravana's Lanka, which is engaged in dividing Hindu society. He said that in the last six and a half years, six and a half lakh recruitments have been done in government jobs in the state, in which 60 per cent of people are from OBC society," Adityanath said. Targeting the Samajwadi Party, he said th
A chariot from Lord Hanuman's birthplace Kishkindha, traced in the region of present-day Hampi in Karnataka, has arrived in Ayodhya ahead of the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple on January 22. Visiting temples across the country, the chariot went to Goddess Sita's birthplace Janakpur in present-day Nepal before arriving in Ayodhya. A group of 100 devotees travelled with the chariot, singing and dancing, raising slogans of "Jai Shree Ram" and waving saffron flags with Lord Ram's pictures. "When thousands of people are heading to Aydohya for the big day of the arrival of Lord Ram, how can Lord Hanuman not be there? We set out for this Rath Yatra and travelled to several places in the last two months. The chariot will be in Ayodhya till January 25," Abhishek Krishnashastri from Sri Hanuman Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust, told PTI. "We have come here from Kishkindha to offer our seva (service) to Lord Ram. The chariot has a statue of Lord Ram hugging Hanuman, who is considered
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday termed BJP's loss in Karnataka elections as the defeat of PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. Bajrang Bali's mace has fallen on the BJP, Raut told reporters. The Congress, in its election manifesto for Karnataka, made a promise to clamp down on extremist organisations and referred to banned Islamist outfit PFI and the Bajrang Dal, the VHP's youth wing, in the same vein. At an election rally in Karnataka, PM Narendra Modi had hit out at the Congress for promising to ban the Bajrang Dal and lock up those who chant 'Jai Bajrang Bali' (Hail Lord Hanuman). This is the defeat of Modi and Shah, Raut said, adding that whatever has happened in Karnataka is exactly what is going to take place in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The results of Karnataka elections are a pointer to the results of Lok Sabha polls next year, Raut said. The Congress is set to win power in Karnataka, ousting the BJP from its only southern pe