A set of ‘Ramayana’ postage stamps is doing the rounds on social media claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released them ahead of his ‘Bhoomi Puja’ event in Ayodhya on August 5. 

A Facebook user name Mare Duniya Radhe Krishna shared the image of  ‘Ramayana’ postage stamps with a caption that "Ramayan stamp released by PM today. So beautiful. Our greatest epic finally gets some recognition".

National Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Baddam Mahipal Reddy tweeted the same picture with the same narrative.

Fact Check 

In our investigation, we found that the viral claim is false. The ‘Ramayana’ postage stamps were released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2017 and are not recent.

After doing a reverse image search, we found that the India Postage Stamps website had indeed issued a set of 11 commemorative postage stamps  based on "RAMAYANA" on 22 September 2017. It also stated that 10 stamps were of the denominations Rs 5 and 1 stamp is of denomination Rs15. 

According to the report of NDTV published on September 22, 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had released a postage stamp on different aspects of Lord Ram's life at the historic Tulsi Manas Mandir Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. 

This was also tweeted by PM Modi in September 2017.

However, according to some media reports, on 5 August, after the ‘Bhoomi Puja’ event at Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to launch postal stamps on a symbolic model of the temple and the Ramayana.

In conclusion, the viral claim that Prime Minister Modi recently released Ramayana stamps, before the “Bhoomi Pujan” at the Ayodhya Ram temple site on August 5 is false. These stamps were released 3-years-ago by PM Modi in Varanasi.