The consecration ceremony is going on in the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Whose echo is not only in the entire country but also in other countries. Articles about Ram Temple and Prime Minister Modi are being published in all the big newspapers of the world. So let's see what the newspapers of other countries have written.
According to Washington Post
America's daily newspaper is Washington Post. It is written that the consecration of Ram temple on January 22 will fulfil the decades-old Hindu nationalist pledge. It is expected to resonate among voters during the Lok Sabha elections to be held in April or May.
The newspaper wrote that Modi is expected to get a big boost from the inauguration of the temple, one of the most controversial religious places in India, before the Lok Sabha elections. Because they are Hindus whose population is almost 80 percent. On the basis of his religious sentiments, he wants to extend his power for a record third consecutive term.
Time Magazine's special story
The controversial inauguration of a Ram temple atop the ruins of a 16th-century mosque is a three-decade-old promise by Modi, his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu nationalist groups, and is the biggest example yet of Hindu supremacy over Indians, according to a special story in Time magazine. There is political proof.
The BJP benefited from stoking Hindu nationalism by linking it to the Babri Masjid and came to power in 2014, ousting the more pluralist Indian Congress party. After this the BJP started turning democratic India into a Hindu supremacist state. Following the BJP's second national victory in 2019, the Supreme Court of India—whose autonomy has been curtailed by the Modi government—issued its final judgement that decided the fate of the Babri Masjid site.
The court called the demolition of the mosque a gross violation of the rule of law but still ruled that a Ram temple could be built on the debris of the mosque. Modi laid the foundation stone of the temple at a bhoomi pujan ceremony in August 2020, and will complete what the BJP and other Hindu supremacists started 30 years ago by consecrating the Ayodhya temple surrounded by his Hindu nationalist colleagues.
DAWN
Pakistan's largest newspaper Dawn wrote that popular film actors, cricketers and prominent industrialists are expected to reach Ayodhya for this star-studded event. However, Muslim residents of Ayodhya, once considered a centre of multicultural civilisation, say they have sent their children and women to relatives in neighbouring cities due to fear of violence.
The local Muslim organisation has given a petition to the administration. They demand that there be tight security and surveillance in areas with large Muslim population as well as other parts of Ayodhya, which saw the demolition of the Babri Masjid and communal violence in 1992.
Guardian
Elections are to be held in India by the month of April. In which Modi and his BJP will try to come to power in the government for the third time. The temple inauguration ceremony has been described by some analysts as the unofficial start of his election campaign. The BJP's electoral agenda is likely to weigh heavily on the religious sentiments of Hindus, who constitute 80% of India's population.
During this period, Modi's religious sentiments became public. The Prime Minister announced that God had chosen him as the instrument to be the representative of all Indians and that he had begun 11 days of rigorous vows and sacrifices to prepare for it.
Since the BJP came to power in 2014, the government's closeness to the Ram Temple is seen to be moving away from the secularism enshrined in the Constitution. And at the same time it is also being seen as a movement towards establishing the country as a Hindu nation.
Reuters
The foundation stone laying ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya is being seen as a Hindu awakening after centuries of subjugation by Muslim and colonial powers. This is being seen as the beginning of Modi's election campaign for the general elections to be held in May.