Uttrakhand s Haridwar Imposes Corona Curfew After Kumbh Mela s Final Shahi Snan
Over 25,000 devotees and 1000 seers gather for the occasion of Kumbh Mela s last Shahi Snan following which Haridwar s district administration on Wednesday announced a curfew.
| 28 April 2021 10:07 AM GMT
Uttrakhand- On the holy occasion of Chitra Purnima, over 25,000 devotees and around 1,350 seers from various akharas gathered to take a holy dip in Brahmkund at Har Ki Pauri during the Kumbh Mela s final Shahi Snan (royal bath) on Tuesday.
Chitra Purnima is a holy day for the Hindu Community which is celebrated on a full moon day in the month of Chaitra, which is considered to be the first month of the year according to the Hindu calendar. It is a festival dedicated to Chitragupta, a Hindu god who is tasked with recording the good and bad deeds committed by humans by Yama, the Hindu god of death and the underworld. On this day, devotees take a dip in the river asking Chitragupta to redeem th
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shahi snan, the last of four, was held after Prime Minister Narendra Modi s appeal on April 18 to keep the Kumbh a symbolic affair and help protect people
Updated: April 27, 2021 10:44 pm IST
The mega Kumbh Mela began April 1 and is scheduled to run till April 30 (File)
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A curfew has been ordered in Uttarakhand s Haridwar from Wednesday - a day after the final
shahi snan (royal bath) of a mega Kumbh that has seen tens of thousands of devotees defy Covid protocol even as India fights a virus that has killed over 17,000 people in the past week alone.
ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 23, 2021 21:02 IST
SUPER SPREADER: Devotees at a ghat in Haridwar during a shahi snan on April 12
As the day of the last shahi snan (royal bath) of the Haridwar Mahakumbh Mela approaches on April 27, the crowds in Haridwar have thinned quite dramatically. Following the surge in Covid-19 cases, several akhadas (congregations) of seers have departed the festival grounds. For instance, of the 13 Bairagi akhadas, for whom the last shahi snan day is considered most significant, only six remain on site.
By April 18, about 80 seers at various ashrams had tested positive for Covid-19. On April 14, Swami Kapil Dev, the mahamandaleshwar of Madhya Pradesh’s Maha Nirvani Akhada, succumbed to Covid-19. Mahant Narendra Giri, president of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad, has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Rishikesh. VHP working president Alok Kumar has also tested positive. Between the Maha Shivratri snan on March 11
Coronavirus SOPs should have been followed at Kumbh Mela, election rallies, says Niti Aayog
Niti Aayog member VK Paul said that the only way to break the chain of transmission was to follow Covid-related guidelines. 5 hours ago Photo of a roadshow of West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh on Sunday, April 18. | BJP Bengal/Twitter
Standard operating procedures, or SOPs, related to the coronavirus pandemic should have been followed “to the letter and spirit” in the Kumbh Mela and rallies in states which went to polls over the last few weeks, Niti Aayog member VK Paul told NDTV on Sunday.
He was responding to a question on violations of basic Covid-related guidelines like wearing masks and maintaining physical distancing at the Kumbh and election rallies, even as coronavirus cases soared across the country.
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