Lucknow: The deadlock over Kanwar Yatra at Uttar Pradesh was resolved when the Kanwar Association on Saturday decided to call it considering the pandemic and the Coronavirus experts predict the third wave in a few months.
Secretary of the Additional Chief (Information) Navneet Sehgal said that after appealing the government, the Kanwar Association decided to delay Yatra this year.
On Friday, a Supreme Court bench led by Justice RF Nariman has directed the government to reconsider his decision to enable annual religious yatra, scheduled to start from July 25.
After this, the head of Yogi Adityanath’s Minister had instructed Awasthi and DGP’s additional schools to beat Goel to speak with the Kanwar Association to reach the final decision before the government submitted a written statement before the Supreme Court on Monday.
The government’s sources said that Kanwar’s association made a decision to call Yatra after talking to government representatives.
Yatra was carried out every year by Shivah god worshipers to bring water from the Holy River, especially Ganga in Haridwar, to offer Dewa in the month of Shravan, canceled last year well and Uttarakhan remembered a pandemic.
This year, Uttarakhand canceled it after drawing on the Kumbh organization earlier this year.
However, up want to hold it with a Covid protocol.
The Supreme Court then took Suo Motu’s awareness about this issue and served notification to the government.
On Friday, SC has asked the government not to let Yatra symbolically remember the pandemic.
It continues by saying that if the government does not call it, the court will be forced to place an order.
For this, the government says that “if” Yatra occurs, it will occur in accordance with the Covid-19 protocol and “with the approval of the Kanwar Association”.
Uttarakhand was previously forced to suspend Char Dham Yatra after the Uttarakhand High Court had been interesting to allow Kumbh Mela in the middle of the second wave.
Up: Kanwar Association calls Yatra Annual this year
