Invitations have also been sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, but no confirmation of their attendance has been received yet.
This time, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set a target of lighting 26.11 lakh lamps during the ninth event at Ram Ki Paidi. For this, a plan has been made to light 28 lakh lamps.
The chief minister inaugurated a new building of the Home Guard Directorate here without the presence of its Minister of State Rajendra Gudha.
Various Sikh Gurudwara and Sikh organisations have opened community kitchen and have been distributing free food to the homeless, hospital staffs and local law enforcement officials.
Amidst the chaos of stone pelting and burning down of houses several victims remained stranded for hours in the unknown galis of the localities.
The situation was defused at the police station where officials verified the identities of the researchers who were from a Lucknow-based research organization, engaged by a US-based Ph.D. scholar.
