Top Seer Ends Kumbh Mela After PM’s Request To Keep It “Symbolic”

Haridwar:

Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed that Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar “ought to solely be symbolic” amid an unprecedented improve in every day coronavirus instances throughout the nation, Swami Avdheshanand Giri of Juna Akhara – one of many high seers within the nation – has introduced an early finish to the month-long mega pageant.

“Our first precedence is the safety of the folks of India (towards Covid). In view of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve carried out the visarjan of all Gods. That is the top of Kumbh for Juna Akhara,” he tweeted in Hindi.

भारत की जनता व उसकी जीवन रक्षा हमारी पहली प्राथमिकता है। #कोरोना महामारी के बढ़ते प्रकोप को देखते हुए हमने विधिवत कुम्भ के आवाहित समस्त देवताओं का विसर्जन कर दिया है। #जूनाअखाड़ा की ओर से यह कुम्भ का विधिवत विसर्जन-समापन है।@narendramodi@AmitShah@ANI@z_achryan@TIRATHSRAWATpic.twitter.com/rOUaqL1egU

— Swami Avdheshanand (@AvdheshanandG) April 17, 2021

The seer, in a video message, appealed to different seers to heed the Prime Minister’s recommendation and solely take symbolic half within the remaining two shahi snan or royal baths.

Hundreds of individuals attended Kumbh Mela that started on April 1 at a time the nation has been logging over a lakh coronavirus instances constantly, triggering considerations that the non secular congregation might make the Covid state of affairs worse.