Puri decked up for Rath Yatra without devotees for second successive year
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Curfew has additionally been imposed in Puri from Sunday to Tuesday.
A day earlier than the annual Rath Yatra, embellished chariots of Lord Balabhadra, Lord Jagannath and Devi Subhadra had been positioned in ‘Bada Danda’ (Grand Road) in entrance of the twelfth century Shree Jagannath Temple at Puri on Sunday.
Colourful chariots — Taladhwaja of Lord Balabhadra, Nandighosa of Lord Jagannath and Debadalana of Devi Subhadra — had been pulled by ‘sevayats’ (conventional clergymen of temple).
In view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, that is the second successive year when the world well-known Rath Yatra is being performed without devotees.
To forestall any devotees from getting into the Grand Road, police blocked each lane and by-lane resulting in the venue. Curfew has additionally been imposed in Puri from Sunday to Tuesday.
People had been suggested to maintain the important items as all retailers will stay closed until Tuesday.
Though no devotee is allowed to take part within the grand occasion, as many as 65 platoons led by 10 Additional Superintendents of Police, 31 Deputy Superintendents of Police and 64 inspectors can be deployed to maintain the devotees off the city.
To be certain that no outsiders attain Rath Yatra venue, vacationers had been requested to vacate visitor homes and inns within the city.
The three chariots had been constructed by conventional carpenters at a spot referred to as Ratha Khala the place no outsider was allowed. As a precautionary step, all of them had been vaccinated and examined earlier than permitting them within the development of chariots.
The servitors testing damaging for COVID-19 can be allowed to drag chariots. Similarly, ‘sevayats’, who would carry out complicated rituals contained in the Jagannath Temple and carry large picket idols to chariots, have already undergone RT-PCR exams.
Except Puri, nowhere else has the Rath Yatra been allowed. Though clergymen and different devotees had moved the Supreme Court pleading to permit the celebration of the Rath Yatra in different areas similarly as in Puri, the court docket refused to entertain it.
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