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New Delhi
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, on with Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh and elder officials, connected Saturday took a vessel thrust in the Yamuna river to reappraisal preparations for the Chhath Puja festival aboriginal this month.
Ms. Gupta announced that ghats volition beryllium constructed astatine each habitation on the Yamuna river from Palla to ITO to allow devotees to worship person to their homes. She added that hundreds of ghats are being developed crossed Delhi to marque the festival much accessible.
“Chhath Puja this twelvemonth volition beryllium organised in a grander, safer and much convenient mode than ever before. It is not conscionable a festival, it is simply a awesome of women’s devotion and our respect for nature. The Delhi authorities is committed to celebrating it with afloat dignity and grandeur,” the CM said.
She added that taste programmes will besides beryllium held to infuse the four-day festival with devotion, tradition, and assemblage enthusiasm.
Highlighting the festival’s ecological significance, the Chief Minister said, “Chhath besides gives the connection of keeping our h2o sources cleanable and alive. Every statement of security, cleanliness, lighting, and postulation absorption volition beryllium handled cautiously truthful that devotees look nary inconvenience,” Ms. Gupta said.
Festival and politics
The CM alleged that the previous governments and administrations had failed to instrumentality the festival seriously. Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party claimed that erstwhile it was successful powerfulness earlier, it had repeatedly written to the Lieutenant-Governor seeking support to let celebrations connected the Yamuna, but its requests were denied.
Chhath Puja, dedicated to the Sun God, is celebrated predominantly by Purvanchalis, radical from eastbound Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and parts of Jharkhand. The numerically beardown assemblage plays a decisive relation successful the Delhi election, and some the AAP and BJP person sought to woo Purvanchali voters, including successful the run-up to the February Assembly polls.
Last year, the AAP authorities claimed to person acceptable up implicit 1,000 Chhath ghats successful the city. The festival, however, besides triggered a governmental blasted game, with some the Congress and the BJP attacking AAP implicit the authorities of contamination successful the Yamuna
