Ayodhya, Sep 8(UNI) Prime minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate the 10-day Diwali celebrations in Ayodhya.

This Deepostav during Diwali will be the last mega show of the Yogi Adityanath tenure, as Uttar Pradesh goes to poll in early 2022.

UP minority affairs minister Mohsin Raza in a statement on Wednesday said,” This time a new record will be made in Deepotsav in Ayodhya. More than seven lakh diyas will be lit in the presence of PM Narendra Modi. ”

Mohsin Raza further said, “those people who fired at Ram devotees will be in pain this time. ”

Sources said here on Wednesday that the PM could inaugurate the Deepotsav on November 3.

Meanwhile , senior officials of the tourism and culture department and Ayodhya Development Authority have begun preparations on a war footing for the event, which will also witness a new Guinness record of lighting 6.5lakh diyas.

Diwali celebrations in the temple town will be very special this year with the Deepotsav theme likely to be designed by Nitin Chandrakant Desai, the person who had made magnificent sets of several Bollywood blockbusters.

The sets of the star-studded Ramlila on Saryu banks and city’s landscape will decorated to imitate the

‘treta yug’ of Lord Ram.

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