The Sena chief arrived with his wife Rashmi and son Aditya amidst slogans of "Jai Shri Ram". On Saturday evening, he offered prayers on the banks of the Saryu river.
The VHP has said the scheduled 'Dharam Sabha' in Ayodhya on Sunday as its 'last effort' to clear the hurdles for the construction of a Ram temple in the temple town.
After the three rallies at the national level, the VHP would start a mass awareness programme over the Ram temple issue across the country, the release said.
He also recalled that in June, the AHP had given a call for "Ayodhya kooch" (march to Ayodhya).
The saints have appealed the BJP-led NDA government to initiate the process of Ram temple construction by bringing a memorandum in Parliament in the winter session.
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"VHP, RSS and BJP members along with hundreds of people welcomed him as he walked towards his residence at Hathikhana Bazar from nearby Swaminarayan temple, where he went to offer prayers after his arrival here," Viral Desai, VHP spokesperson said.
The issue soon took the social media by storm and snowballed into a controversy as the person came under attack from twitteratis and politicians.
Togadia took a swipe at the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying they have proved to be "as bad as their predecessors" and failed to fulfil their promises.
Pravin Togadia, who held the position since 2011, alleged rigging in the VHP's internal election.
The BJP and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) kept their Hanuman Jayanti celebrations a low-key affair with small-scale programmes at temples and mutts.
The Karnataka cabinet had on Monday granted the long-demanded status of a separate religion to Lingayat community that forms 17 per cent of the state's population.
Togadia later claimed he could have been killed had his vehicle not been bullet-proof, and alleged that his Z-plus security was "weakened deliberately" by the Gujarat government.
The yatra is expected to be flagged off by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
According to police, some unidentified people hurled stones at a motorcycle rally taken out by volunteers of VHP and ABVP on the Mathura-Bareilly highway.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad international head Pravin Togadia, who had been missing since morning has been found unconscious on side of a road in Ahmedabad's Shahibagh area.
VHP workers laid a siege to the Sola police station, shouted slogans, and blocked traffic on main Sarkehj- Gandhinagar highway demanding that the police immediately locate him.
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