Mumbai: Token celebration marks Lord Krishna’s birthday – celebrated as ‘Janmashtami’ and ‘Dahi-Handi’ – because of rain in most parts of Maharashtra coupled with Covid-19 restrictions recommended by the center, for the second year in a row.
Here on Monday.
Krishna temple scores in Mumbai, including Isycon temples in Giragaum and Juhu are decorated with bright lights, flowers, gods who wear new clothes, even though no worshipers are present for celebrations on the Covid-19 protocol.
However, most temples have organized ‘Aartis’, online ‘Darshan’ and donations and other facilities for worshipers to celebrate the festival of their home safely, because the ‘third wave’ Corona can lurk close.
Shooting the closure of sustainable temples and other places of worship, opposition party Bharatiya Janata launched ‘Shankhnaad’ agitation throughout the country demanding the opening of the temple.
Many BJP activists in Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Pune, Nashik, Kolhapur, Aurangabad, and District, Imam, women and other people slammed the Supreme Vikas Aghadi government, collecting slogans, carrying black placards and posters, because they accidentally trampled in religion people.
Sentiment by keeping the temple and other places of worship closed.
BJP agitation was almost four days after the UNI Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan’s Mistive told the Maharashtra government who asked him to curb a crowded festival for the Forehead Festival and Ganeshotsav, both mega-crowd towers considering the potential threat from the Covid-19 ‘third wave’.
Minister of Health State Rajesh Tope has warned that the third wave can be a possibility of ‘tsunami’ more than 6 million (60-lakh) in the state, or three times the numbers on the first wave in 2020, and higher than the numbers are recorded In the first and second wave.
Given the potential threat that was heard by the center and state, the spokesman for Congress Sachin Sawant had attacked BJP to once again “played political temple”, and deputy head of Minister Ajit Pawar warned that even ‘Jan Asphwad Yatras’ which could lead to a surge in Covid cases.
Some BJP activists accused that while the leaves of the window fell on the temple, other places of worship such as the mosque or the church were permitted to function because the MVA government wanted to calm the minority and threaten forcibly entering the temple.
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