‘Pran Pratishtha’ by Narendra Modi becomes YouTube’s most watched livestream

Hyderabad: ‘Ram Lalla’s Pran Pratishtha’ on Narendra Modi’s YouTube channel has set a global record with over 19 million live views, the highest for any live stream on YouTube till date.   

The two videos titled: ‘PM Modi LIVE | Ayodhya Ram Mandir LIVE | Shri Ram Lalla Pran Pratishtha’ and ‘Shri Ram Lalla Pran Pratishtha LIVE | PM Modi attends Pran Pratishtha of Shri Ram in Ayodhya’ live on Narendra Modi’s official YouTube channel got over 10 million and 9 million live views respectively, breaking all the previous records made by live streaming of Chandrayaan-3 launch, a FIFA World Cup 2023 match, and Apple launch event. 

During the live stream, The PM was seen walking inside the temple premises with a silver ‘chattar’ (umbrella) placed on a red folded dupatta. Dressed in a golden kurta teamed up with a cream dhoti and patka, he took sankalp’ for the “pran pratishtha ceremony” and later moved to the sanctum sanctorum for the rituals.

“The extraordinary moment of the consecration of Shri Ram Lala’s life in Ayodhya Dham is going to leave everyone emotional. It is my great pleasure to be a part of this divine program. Hail Siya Ram!,” Modi said on X.

Until Sunday, January 21, live streaming of the landing of ‘Chandrayaan-3’ on August 23, 2023, secured the first place with 8.09 million views worldwide, followed by World Cup 2022 Quarter Final Brazil vs Croatia with 6.14 million views was on top until December 2022. 

Narendra Modi has over 2 crore subscribers on YouTube

Prime Minister Modi has 2.1 crore subscribers with 23,750 videos and 472 crore views on the official YouTube channel. It makes the Indian Prime Minister the most subscribed world leader on YouTube, and second to Modi is former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who has around 64 lakh subscribers.