Speaking to mediapersons, CM Rawat said that the Char Dham shrines will open as per their announced dates although no pilgrims will be allowed in the temples.
DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand government on Thursday announced that in view of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was suspending the Char Dham Yatra to the four Himalayan shrines of Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath.
The yatra was scheduled to begin next month.
The announcement was made by chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat a day after the Uttarakhand high court reprimanded the state for holding Kumbh and becoming a ‘laughing stock’. The division bench of Chief Justice RS Chauhan and Justice Alok Kumar Verma had also made the oral observation that the prospect of conducting the Char Dham Yatra in the midst of a raging pandemic is “a frightening one”.