Lucknow/Faizabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Ram Temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday amid 72-hour campaign ban imposed on him by the Election Commission.
Adityanath visited the famous Hanuman Setu temple in Lucknow and offered prayers on Tuesday, a day after the poll panel barred him from electioneering for three days for equating the ongoing Lok Sabha polls to a contest between 'Ali' and 'Bajrang Bali'.
In Ayodhya, along with the makeshift shrine to Ram Lalla, the chief minister will also pray at the nearby Hanuman Garhi temple on Wednesday.
Faizabad BJP district president Awadhesh Pandey said, "The chief minister's programme is all confirmed, he will offer prayers at Ram Janambhoomi and Hanuman Garhi temple and meet VHP religious leaders in Ayodhya on Wednesday."
Adityanath will be meeting Ram Janambhoomi Nyas president Mahant Nritya Gopal Das and Digambar Akhara Mahant Suresh Das, he said.
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According to Mahant Suresh Das, the chief minister will spend Wednesday in Ayodhya and will have lunch with prominent Sadhus of Ayodhya at Digambar Akhara.
In the evening, he will go to Devipatan, a temple of goddess Durga in Balrampur district where he would stay in the night.
The chief minister reached the Hanuman Setu temple in Lucknow on Tuesday morning and got a rousing reception from his supporters amid slogans of "Jai Gorakhdham" and "Jai Bajrangbali ji".
He, however, refused to take questions from the media persons, following the poll panel's gag order.