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'Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram, Patita Pavan Sitaram'
The devotional song was played inside Ayodhya's Ram Mandir on the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Pran Pratishtha rituals.
Nearly 1,300 km away, Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, staged a protest on road in Assam's Nagaon, chanting the same devotional song, but with a slight difference.
Rahul Gandhi was stopped at Haibargaon en route to the birthplace of Vaishnav saint Srimanta Sankardeva. According to the police, Rahul Gandhi was barred from visiting the birthplace of the iconic Vaishnav saint on the ground that a law and order problem may arise during his visit as many organisations were planning to hold events related to the consecration of the Ram Mandir, as reported by IndiaToday.
Rahul Gandhi and other senior Congress leaders and supporters staged a dharna, singing the Ramdhun which was immortalised in Indian politics by Mahatma Gandhi. But the lyrics of their Ramdhun is different from the one played at the Ayodhya temple.
There are different versions of the origin of the devotional song. While some credit Tulsidas, who wrote Ramcharitmanas, for the bhajan, some accounts say 17th-century Marathi poet-saint Ramdas created it.
Whatever the origin of the bhajan, its lyrics were deeply rooted in the lore of Lord Ram.
Mahatma Gandhi's affinity to Ram began in his childhood. In his autobiography 'My Experiments with Truth', Gandhi mentions that in his younger days, he was urged by his nurse Rambha to take the name of Ram when in fear.
"I have said before that there was in me a fear of ghosts and spirits. Rambha, for that was her name, suggested, as a remedy for this fear, the repetition of Ramanama. I had more faith in her than in her remedy, and so at a tender age I began repeating Ramanama to cure my fear of ghosts and spirits. This was of course short-lived, but the good seed sown in childhood was not sown in vain. I think it is due to the seed sown by that good woman Rambha that today Ramanama is an infallible remedy for me," Gandhi wrote in his autobiography.