Ayodhya ki Awaz and Asha Parivar were to organise a Sarva Dharma Sadhbhav Sammelan like every year on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. This time the programme was scheduled to be held on October 1 at Ram-Janki Mandir of which Jugual Kishore Shashtri ji is also the mahant. But the Faizabad District administration cooked up a false allegation that a CD containing the controversial Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath’s speech was going to be screened at the programme, and banned the programme itself. Jugul Kishore Shashtri was taken by the police to Police Station Pura Kalandar, 30 km from Ayodhya so that he could not organise the programme in any way. The decision of the organisers was that if the permission for the outdoor programme would not be given then a meeting would be held indoors without a loudspeaker.
Members from Christian, Buddhist, Muslim and Hindu communities assembled from various places at Shashtri ji’s temple to take part in the programme like every year. Ayodhya ki Awaz, Asha Parivar and NAPM have been organising programmes every January 30, October 2 and December 6 in Ayodhya to strengthen the forces in favour of communal harmony and peace. On September 24, Shashtri ji organised an Eid-Milan programme in Faizabad.