Indians are celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival that symbolizes the victory of light over darkness. Streets are lit up with colorful lights and huge crowds have returned to bazaars, bringing back the Diwali cheer that was dampened by virus restrictions.
Senior government official Nitish Kumar said that over 22,000 volunteers, the majority of them college students, ensured that lamps burned for the prescribed time to break the last year’s record of 900,000 oil lamps.
The holy city was decked with fairy lights ahead of the event and a laser and fireworks show illuminated its lanes and river banks. Thousands of residents also lit lamps at their houses and temples across the city. Earlier, Modi offered prayers at a long-awaited temple of the Hindu god Ram at the site of a demolished 16th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya.The Babri Masjid mosque was destroyed by a Hindu mob with pickaxes and crowbars in December 1992, sparking massive Hindu-Muslim violence that left some 2,000 people dead, most of them Muslims. The Supreme Court’sIt was Modi’s second visit to the temple since he laid the foundation in 2020 for the construction of the temple.
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