The deep ties between Sri Lanka and Ayodhya, which date again to Tretayuga, have been mentioned in the assembly between chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Sri Lankan excessive commissioner to India, Ashok Milinda Moragoda, on Wednesday.
Moragoda introduced a ‘Shila’ (slice of rock) of Ashok Vatika positioned in Sri Lanka to the chief minister. He additionally introduced two work to the CM to be put in at Varanasi airport.
Cultural relations and promotion of tourism between the 2 nations have been significantly mentioned throughout talks between the CM and Sri Lankan envoy. The 2 leaders additionally held detailed discussions on growing numerous places associated to the Ramayana interval in Sri Lanka, in order that the residents of India, particularly Uttar Pradesh, get a possibility to go to the Ramayana websites in Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan excessive commissioner additionally urged the chief minister to plant ‘Sanjivani Booti’ (a natural drugs that Lord Hanuman introduced by lifting the mountain on which it was planted to treatment Lord Ram’s brother Lakshman) from Sri Lanka on a big scale in UP, which CM Yogi gladly accepted.
Moragoda appreciated the efforts of chief minister Yogi Adityanath to result in unprecedented improvement in Uttar Pradesh in latest years. He mentioned that Sri Lanka and UP have at all times had cordial relations for the reason that Ramayana interval and that the dialogue will show to be essential in the course of higher cooperation in the sphere of tradition and tourism between the 2 nations.
Moragoda is the excessive commissioner of Sri Lanka to India from 2020.