Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath govt finally taken a call to cancel annual Hindu religious march Kanwar Yatra for this year after the Supreme Court has asked govt to reconsider its decision amid Covid19 surge.
The govt has taken this decision a day after the Supreme Court intervened and said it cannot allow UP govt to hold full capacity physical Kanwar Yatra in view of COVID”, surge while stressing that fact that the Right to Life is important to all.
Yogi himself is a religious person so he walked an extra mile to convince the organisational heads of Kanwar Sanghs to cancel the upcoming Kanwar Yatra, informed Navneet Sehgal, Additional Chief Secretary Information in Up govt.
Akhara Parishad supports cancellation of Kanwar yatra in UP
Kanwar Yatra was scheduled to start on July 25.
Meanwhile, The Uttarakhand Dhami govt has already cancelled the Kanwar Yatra while concerns of a possible third wave of the Covid pandemic and the risk of spread by such gatherings.
The yatra goes on till the first week of August in Savan where thousands of Lord Shiva devotees known as Kanwariyas traveling on their foot from neighboring states to collect water from the holy river the Ganges in Haridwar.
The Centre too had told the Supreme court that the state government should not permit any kind of Kanwar yatra due to the pandemic while it suggested making alternative arrangements to take water from the Ganges to designated places.
Although, Yogi Govt has decided to hold the symbolic version of religious annual Yatra with the limited personnel and it will reply in the top court about this by July 19.
