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VHP to start 41-day Ram Rath Yatra from Ayodhya today,

VHP to start 41-day Ram Rath Yatra from Ayodhya today,

| @indiablooms | 13 Feb 2018, 01:47 pm

Lucknow, Feb 13 (IBNS) : The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) will on Tuesday flag off its 41-day long Ram Rajya Rath Yatra from Ayodhya across six states, reports said.

The Yatra   will commence in the evening  from Karsevakpuram in Ayodhya and will travel 6,000 kum to Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu where it will culminate on March 23.

Though initial reports said  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will flag off the  Yatra, according to  News18, no government representative, including the CM, will attend the  inauguration ceremony.

It says that the yatra will be flagged off by VHP’s Mahamantri Champat Rai from Karsevakpuram in Ayodhya.

The Ram Rajya Rath, a converted mini truck, will be passing through Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.

The Yatra, being organised ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on Ram Janambhoomi, has the potential to revive the Ram temple movement before next year's Lok Sabha elections, though the organisers have denied having any such political design.

Last week, the  Supreme Court  said it will deal with the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case as a pure land dispute and refused to hear it on a day-to-day basis.

Beginning the hearing, a special bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S Abdul Nazeer posted it for March 14, asking parties in the case to file English translations of the documents before it.

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