LUCKNOW, India / NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a rite of staging on Wednesday to lay the foundations of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, said the organizers, even though Interior Minister Amit Shah COVID-19.
Amit Shah, who is Modi’s highest lieutenant and India’s interior minister, entered a personal hospital near Delhi on Sunday, 4 days after attending a cabinet cabinet assembly attended by the prime minister.
But arrangements continue for Modi in a temple built in honor of the Hindu king god Ram in the northern city of Ayodhya, said the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, which is being built on the site of a mosque that has been razed. about 3 decades ago.
Modi did not respond to an email requesting comment, however, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, some other organization involved in building the temple on a long-contested site with Muslims, said Modi would make the visit.
Sources close to the stage said an official announcement of the scale was expected by Tuesday.
The appeals ignored the undue fear that others would be in poor health after the Shah, saying that social estrangement regulations had been complied with at last week’s closet assembly at Modi’s residence.
It was not without transparent delay if Modi and the others provided had been tested for COVID-19.
Knowledge of the Indian government on Monday showed that 52,972 new coronavirus patients had been registered in the last 24 hours, bringing India’s total to 1.8 million, the third in the world after the United States and Brazil.
With 771 new deaths, COVID-19 has now killed another 38,135 people in India, a minister added Sunday in Uttar Pradesh state. World Health Organization emergency chief Mike Ryan praised India’s testing efforts, but expressed fear of a maximum positive rate, estimated at 12.5%.
“This is that the disease continues to circulate intensely,” he said at a briefing in Geneva.
Shah’s admission to a personal hospital has generated social media complaints in a country where public fitness infrastructure is running low after years of underinvestment. An aides said Shah was paying for his remedy and sought to ease tension in government hospitals.
Additional reports from Anuron Kumar Mitra, Sachin Ravikumar, Nigamananda Prusty and Emma Farge in Geneva; Editing through Jacqueline Wong, Gerry Doyle, Timothy Heritage and Nick Macfie
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