In a humble gesture, the ‘Kinnar’ community in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly has announced that they will not insist on taking the customary gifts and money from the parents for blessing their children who are born on January 22, the day of the pran pratishtha of Ram Lalla in the Ayodhya temple.

The 'Kinnar' community in Bareilly has said they will not insist on taking the customary gifts and money from parents for blessing the children born on January 22, the day of the 'pran pratishtha' (consecration ceremony) at the Ram Temple.

They said when Lord Ram was going to exile, everybody in Awadh started following him, but then, on his request, everyone except the Kinnars returned to Ayodhya.

"They sang hymns in praise of Lord Ram and worshipped him for 14 years near the Tamsa river. When he returned to his kingdom, he was happy to see their devotion towards him and he gave them a ‘vardaan’ (boon) that if the Kinnars blessed the newborns by singing congratulatory songs, then the children would prosper in life," Sharda said.

"Today it is by the grace of Lord Ram that we give blessings to children. After January 22, we will go to Ayodhya to have darshan of ‘Ram Lalla’," Sharda said.

Naina Devi said that they will visit Ayodhya after the “pran pratishtha’ and also give gifts to the children born on January 22.