With the aim to preserve and restore various artefacts kept for display, including textile paintings, artworks and stones recovered during excavations in Ayodhya during temple construction, a conservation laboratory has come up.
Established in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in Delhi, headed by Ram Bahadur Rai, it has two experienced staff members from the institution deputed to train the Ram temple staff over the next three years. A Hanuman gallery will be completed by May 30. The museum will be open for devotees only after December. A new museum is set to use 7D tech and AI to tell the story of Lord Ram.
Vijay’s success inspires Chandrashekhar
Inspired by the electoral success of Vijay Thalapathy in Tamil Nadu and intending to apply similar strategies and intensity to the Azad Samaj Party (ASP-Kanshi Ram) in Uttar Pradesh with an aim to replicate the same success in the 2027 UP Assembly elections, Chandrashekhar Azad, the ASP-Kanshi Ram leader and MP from Nagina in Western UP, is set to seek some strategic lessons from the actor-politician of Tamil Nadu.
Vijay’s successful political entry and government formation in the state following the 2026 assembly elections seem to make Chandrashekhar believe that he could also replicate it in UP by forming a government on his own.
Suspense continues over portfolio allocation
After the much-talked-about expansion of the Yogi cabinet, the suspense continues over the allocation of portfolios to the six newly inducted ministers and the two promoted ones. CM Yogi rushed to Delhi on Thursday and met senior party leader and Union Home Minister, followed by his meeting with BJP national president Nitin Nabin.
The back-to-back meetings in New Delhi intensified speculation of a wider reshuffle in the BJP government in the state, which will go to polls next year. If the ruling party insiders are to be believed, the issue was not about allocating portfolios to the six new ministers but about changes in the portfolios.
Namita Bajpai
Our correspondent in Uttar Pradesh
namita.bajpai@newindianexpress.com
