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Dressed in a white dhoti and gamcha, octogenarian Jagannath Das was effusive in his praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “actualising the centuries-old Ram temple dream” and reassuring people about his leadership qualities.
“The people of Ayodhya have been celebrating Diwali over the past few days in the run up to the groundbreaking ceremony of the temple,” Das, an ascetic, said on Wednesday, while taking a stroll on the banks of Saryu river, which is flowing above the danger mark owing to monsoon.
His sentiments are echoed by a majority of locals across the economic, age and gender divides,
