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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has formed a five-member committee to oversee the enactment of venues and reappraisal preparations for Chhath Puja successful the city, officials said connected Monday. Kapil Mishra, Minister of Art, Culture and Tourism, has been appointed arsenic the committee’s chairman. Four MLAs – Abhay Kumar Verma (Laxmi Nagar), Chandan Kumar Chaudhary (Sangam Vihar), Sandeep Sehrawat (Matiala) and Deepak Chaudhary (Badli) – are the remainder of the members.
The committee volition reappraisal arrangements related to amenities, safety, sanitation, transportation, and wide convenience of the devotees earlier submitting its study to the government.
On Monday, attacking AAP, Mr. Mishra alleged that the erstwhile governments “did injustice to the devotees of Chhathi Maiya”, and added that the tone and standard of the festival volition beryllium transformed now.
“Chhath Puja is not lone a taste individuality of Purvanchal but besides of Delhi. It symbolises our corporate religion and unity. Unfortunately, erstwhile governments deliberately disregarded the religion of millions of devotees. However, this time, the Delhi authorities aims to guarantee that each devotee tin execute the rituals successful a harmless and respectful environment. We volition marque definite that each ghats person the champion imaginable arrangements for cleanliness, safety, postulation management, lighting, and aesculapian facilities,” Mr. Mishra said.
The four-day festival, dedicated to the Sun God, is celebrated predominantly by Purvanchalis, radical from eastbound Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and parts of Jharkhand. The numerically beardown Purvanchali assemblage plays a important relation successful deciding the destiny of elections successful Delhi. Both the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had tried to woo the assemblage successful the run-up to the Assembly predetermination successful February.
Mr. Mishra appealed to each devotees and residents of Delhi to cooperate with the medication successful maintaining cleanliness and order.
Last month, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had announced that Chhath Puja would beryllium celebrated connected some banks of the Yamuna river, but warned that “immersion successful the stream is prohibited”.
“This year, the festival volition beryllium held astatine astir 1,000 locations crossed the city. These volition see sites on the Yamuna riverbanks, the Munak Canal, and respective artificial ponds,” Mr. Mishra’s bureau said successful a statement.
Last year, during the festival, hundreds of devotees took a dip successful the Yamuna astatine galore places and successful galore artificial ponds acceptable up by the government. The AAP authorities had besides claimed to acceptable up astir 1,000 ghats crossed the metropolis for the devotees.
