LUCKNOW, Sept. 14 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will inaugurate the historic Brihaspati Kund at Teedi Bazaar intersection in Ayodhya next month. The Kund is dedicated to the devotees of South India. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will also be present at the inauguration ceremony scheduled for October 8.

"Grand statues of three giants of South Indian devotional music Tyagaraja Swamigal, Purandara Dasa and Arunachala Kavi have been installed here and the project is ready," said Ayodhya DM Nikhil Tikaram Funde. They will also be inaugurated on the same day.

The event will give a new direction to the cultural diversity and spiritual heritage of Ayodhya, which along with Varanasi, is the most sought-after religio...