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Bengaluru Barber Waited 27 Years For Ayodhya Verdict To Finally Get A Haircut
Bricks with Shri Ram written on them in Ayodhya. (Representative Image) (Burhaan Kinu/Hindustan Times via GettyImages)
A 65-year-old Bengaluru man, Adhinarayan, took a vow 27 years ago that he would not cut his hair or trim his beard until the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute was sorted out, reports New Indian Express.
He runs a saloon with the name ‘RSS Hair Style’ in Lakshminarayanapura layout in Rajajinagar area of the city.
Adhinarayana is a frequent visitor to Ayodhya. The report mentions that he had gone there in 1992 with Suresh Kumar, now primary and secondary education minister, as part of a team from Karnataka. “I was in Ayodhya for 15 days, I had shut my shop and gone,’’ he said.
It was here that he took a vow to not cut his hair till the Ram Mandir issue was sorted out.
He added, “I would trim my customers’ hair, but never felt like cutting mine. I finally tonsured my hair in the name of Lord Shri Ram at Ayodhya which I had kept growing.”
After almost three decades, in November 2019, when the Temple issue was finally sorted, he visited Ayodhya and tonsured his hair and shaved off his beard.
Additionally, he said that he is taking another vow and this time he won’t cut his hair and beard until the Mandir is constructed.
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