Gangasagar Mela: Mamata pitches for more central funds
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said that the state government goes all out to improve infrastructure for the Gangasagar Mela without taking any grant from the central government.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said that the state government goes all out to improve infrastructure for the Gangasagar Mela without taking any grant from the central government.
A large number of devotees from Uttar Pradesh had attended the Haridwar Kumbh Mela.
As further proof that that we are not scientifically-minded, we have important ministers and officer bearers brazenly defending bunkum ~the cow is the only animal that exhales oxygen and caressing and massaging it is a remedy for respiratory ailments.
The PM stressed that it will give a boost to the fight against the pandemic.
The Prime Minister`s appeal came after a Hindu seer is reportedly lost his life after Covid-19 infection and nearly 100 other holy men have tested positive after attending a vast Indian religious festival where millions of pilgrims have been ignoring Covid-19 advice despite a national surge in infections.
The Swachh Kumbh Swachh Aabhaar event is being organized by the Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation.
This is the third visit of foreign delegates in this Kumbh.
The Allahabad High Court on Saturday directed that no photographs of women taking a bath or a dip in the river at Kumbh Mela are to be published by any print or visual media.
Yogi Adityanath held a cabinet meeting at the Kumbh Mela on Tuesday in Prayagraj and followed it by a holy dip in River Ganga along with several state ministers at the Sangam.
In 2001, the then Congress President and Rahul and Priyanka’s mother Sonia Gandhi had attended the Kumbh Mela and taken a holy dip.