NEW DLEHI: Almost six months after
VHP announced its nationwide drive to collect stones for construction of
Ram temple here, two trucks of stones arrived in the temple city here today, even as police said it was monitoring the situation.
"Two trucks of stones have been unloaded at Ram Sewak Puram, a
VHP property in Ayodhya, and 'Shila Pujan' (praying of the stones) has been performed by Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, the president of Ram Janam Bhumi Nyas,"
VHP spokesman Sharad Sharma said.
Meanwhile, Mahant Nritya Gopal Das told PTI that there was a "signal" from the Modi government that the temple will be build "now".
"Now, the time has come for the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. Lot of stones arrived today in Ayodhya. And now the arrival of stones will continue. We have signals from Modi Government that Mandir construction would be done now," he said.
Principal Secretary (Home) Devashish Panda had said that the Uttar Pradesh government would not allow arrival of stones in Ayodhya for Ram Mandir.(DNA India)