Indian-Americans opt for muted celebration

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Updated At : 01:10 PM Aug 05, 2020 IST

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New Delhi, August 4

Pro-Hindutva organisations in the US have restricted their plans to celebrate the foundation-laying ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya after other Indian-Americans petitioned local mayors and the authorities to not allow them to take up billboards, including in New York’s Times Square.

President of Indian-American organisation Jagdish Sewhani had last week announced plans to lease prominent billboards in most major US cities that would beam live images of the “bhoomi pujan” for the Ram temple.

He had visualised it as a community event with poojas and addresses at Times Square scheduled to time with images on the Nasdaq Plus screen that is said to be the largest continuous exterior displays in the world and the highest-resolution exterior LED screen in Times Square. — TNS

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