AYODHYA: From top to toe, he is all saffron, and looks like an ardent devotee of Lord Hanuman. Dressed in a shiny saffron shirt and trousers,

activist 57-year-old Mohan Yadav, or ‘Balasaheb’, as he likes to call himself, drove down from Mumbai to

on his saffron bike and reached on November 7 to lend support to party chief Uddhav Thackeray’s call for an ordinance to build Ram temple.

Everything about Yadav screams Shiv Sena: his cap, clothes, nails, phone, shoes, socks, bike, etc., all are of bright saffron colour. And such a fervent follower has he been of Balasaheb Thackeray, that he has even named his sons as Uddhav and Raj.

“In 1992, I was in my village but now I want to participate in any programme that will help in paving the way for construction of Ram temple,” he said. Meanwhile Shiv Sena, party sources said, has limited the number of supporters coming to Ayodhya as too big crowd can cast a shadow on law and order situation. The party had commissioned five special trains which were expected to bring at least 4,000 people from

by Friday night.

Kalpnath Shukla, a Sena worker from Mumbai, said that supporters from across Maharashtra were on their way to Ayodhya.

Mumbai’s Dabba Association president Subhash Talekar said that 500 dabbawalas had also planned to come but then decided to participate in a maha ‘aarti’ in Mumbai since Uddhav was not holding a rally.

“Hundreds of small aartis have been organised across Maharashtra to coincide with the Saryu Aarti that will be performed by Uddhav ji on Saturday evening,” said Talekar.