The 'Kanwariyas' vandalised a police vehicle in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, the police said on Monday. The police later brought the situation under control.
Two kanwariyas died and 14 were injured in an accident in Madhya Pradesh's Morena on Monday morning. The accident took place on National Highway number 44.
The Delhi Police has issued an advisory and stated that it has made elaborate arrangements for Kanwar Yatra to avoid any inconvenience to devotees and other commuters.
Kanwar Yatra: Vehicles traveling to Delhi from Baghpat will be diverted through Tronica City or Sonia Vihar. Those from Hapur and Bulandshahr heading to Ghaziabad city via Dasna railway overbridge will be rerouted to NH-9.
The latest advisory by the Muzaffarnagar police riled up the Opposition parties, as some of them equated it to 'apartheid' while others demanded 'judicial intervention' to stay the order.
Kanwar Yatra 2024: Health camps will be set up at various places along the route, providing resting, dining, and accommodation facilities for the pilgrims. Separate camps will be arranged for women. Health camps will also have anti-venom injections available.
A day after Uttar Pradesh Police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse a group of kanwariyas, who were bent on taking their procession through an unauthorised route in Bareilly, flower petals were showered on the devotees from helicopters in Prayagraj.
The high-voltage current charged the vehicle and into the crowd, knocking down the devotees. Locals rushed to the spot and called the power station to shut down the electricity supply.
MP news: The incident occurred near Memdi village in Mhow tehsil of the district in the afternoon, an official said.
Kanwar Yatra news: Girish Gupta, was returning from Haridwar with his family when the accident occurred at Sindhauli crossing in Meerganj, ASP (rural) Rajkumar Agarwal said.
Though the pilgrimage has been suspended, the possibility that Kanwariyas may still try to enter Haridwar, which shares borders with Uttar Pradesh, to collect waters from the Ganga and offer prayers to Lord Shiva remains.
Kanwar Yatra is an annual pilgrimage of devotees of Lord Shiva known as kanwariyas. The devotees visit Haridwar, Gaumukh and Gangotri in Uttarakhand and Sultanganj in Bihar to fetch holy waters of river Ganga during the auspicious Hindu month of Shravan.
Additional forces and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel were immediately deployed to bring the situation under control. Eid this year coincides with last Monday of the holy month of Shravan when Hindus offer prayers and offer Ganges water at Shiva temples.
From closing schools to allow Kanwariyas to move unhindered on roads to showering petals on them from state-owned helicopters and washing roads on the route-the state government has offered sops by the dozens to Shiva devotees this year.
The stream of saffron-clad Kanwariyas, who began descending upon Haridwar and Rishikesh to collect holy waters of the Ganga with the start of Shravan on July 17, continued unabated till Tuesday night when the annual fair came to an end, IG (law and order) Ashok Kumar said.
Shamli SP gives foot massage to kanwariya
Kanwar Yatra is an annual pilgrimage for the devotees of Shiva -- known as Kanwariyas -- during the month of Shraavan in the Hindu calendar. Kanwar Yatra hits its peak celebrations in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Uttarakhand.
In another incident in the same village, a labourer, identified as Arif, was killed on Friday night at a kawar camp along the highway when he accidentally fell in a pan of boiling oil.
In recent years, most of the kanwariyas have been found consuming liquor, smoking hashish and cigarettes, and vandalizing properties.
The apex court's directive comes days after a group of 'Kanwariyas' vandalised a car in Delhi's Moti Nagar as it had brushed passed one of them.
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