21 lakh lamps will be lit at 51 ghats of Ayodhya, CM Yogi will visit, representatives of 50 countries will attend.

Diwali 2023: Preparations are going on for the grand festival of lights in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh today. Today 21 lakh lamps will be lit at 51 ghats in Ayodhya, the city of Lord Ram. More than 25 thousand volunteers participated in the Deepotsav program. Let us tell you that High Commissioners and Ambassadors of more than 50 countries will participate in this program. Ayodhya is once again going to make a world record for celebrating Deepotsav festival. Actually, 24 lakh lamps will be lit at all the 51 ghats of Ram Ki Paidi. During this period, tableaux will be taken out in Ayodhya at 10 am. This time, Ramlilas from 4 countries and 24 states will be staged in the tableaus.

CM Yogi will reach Ayodhya Deepotsav program

Let us tell you that CM Yogi Adityanath will also reach Ramkatha Park today. Here he will apply tilak to Ram and Sita. After this, Lord Ram-Sita will reach Ram-Sita Park by Pushpak Viman. There will be a Deepotsav at Ram Ki Paidi at around 6 pm. Let us tell you that Deepotsav is celebrated every year in Ayodhya. 51 ghats built on the banks of Saryu river have been completely decorated. This time the government has set a target of lighting 21 lakh lamps. However, arrangements for 24 lakh lamps have been made for this. 25 thousand volunteers are engaged in decorating the ghats and decorating the lamps.

The record will be recorded again in the Guinness Book

Let us tell you that in the year 2017, Yogi Adityanath government was formed in Uttar Pradesh. Only then the festival of lights was started in Ayodhya. However, the Deepotsav program could not be organized for two years during the Corona period. Ayodhya District Magistrate Nitish Kumar said that the festival of lights started from Ram Ki Paidi in 2017. He told that 1.87 lakh lamps were lit in 2017, 3.11 thousand in 2018 and more than 4 lakh lamps were lit in 2019. Whereas 6.6 lakh lamps were lit in 2020, 9.41 thousand in 2021, 15.76 lakh in 2022. Let us tell you that the Deepotsav of Ayodhya has registered its name in the Guinness Book of World Records. But once again this record is going to be broken in Ayodhya itself.