(Namita Pradhan, Intern Journalist) Nepal; Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P Oli on Monday claimed India to “distorted facts” to appropriate Lord Ram by making his Kingdom at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, and Lord Ram was originally from a place in present-day Nepal.
Spoke about this in an event on the occasion of the 206th anniversary of Nepal poet Bhanubhakta Acharya. Ayodhya is an area west of Birgunj, a town of Bihar.
He also claimed, ‘It was not possible of Lord Ram coming all the way from present-day Ayodhya for his marriage to Nepal. ‘We are culturally deceived as India has distorted facts. Sita was not allowed to marry an Indian prince’.
Legend has said that Sita lived in the Asharam of sage Valmiki with son Lav and Kush after she got abandoned by Ram which is presently located at Nepal Border with Bihar.
He also claimed that ‘the pandits who performed Yagna for King Dashrath belong to the Ridi area, in Nepal.