Devi’s “prana pratistha” will be done in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a newly built Annapurna temple inside Kashi Vishwanath temple corridor on Monday morning.
As the procession passed through the neighborhood Sultanpur And in Jaunpur districts, the ‘rath’ was stopped several times by the mob and this delayed the entry of the deity into Varanasi.
Before reaching Durgakund, the Rath Yatra passed through Pindra, Babatpur, Shivpur, Circuit House, Chowkaghat, Teliabagh, Rath Yatra, Manduadih and Lanka. District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said that the idol will reach Kashi Vishwanath Dham corridor in the morning after passing through Gurudham. ravindrapuri, Bhelupur, Madanpura and Godaulia.
The Abhishek rituals will begin at 6 am on Monday and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will reach KVT at 9.30 am to attend the aarti ceremony. After a 45-minute stay at the KVT, Yogi will head to the Rudraksh International Convention Center to address a gathering of religious leaders.
Regarding the preparations for the establishment of Annapurna idol, Divisional Commissioner Deepak Agrawal said, “A temple has been constructed in the north-east corner. Vaastu Shaastra And the temple is near the northern entrance of the Kashi Vishwanath Dham (corridor) area.”
This idol was stolen from Kashi and smuggled to Canada a century ago. In his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on November 29, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the return of this idol from Canada to Delhi, mentioning that it was stolen from the Kashi temple and smuggled out of the country in 1913. was done.
The Rath Yatra to bring the idol to Kashi began on November 11 from Delhi. Through Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Bulandshahr, Hathras, Soron of Kasganj, Etah, Mainpur, Kannauj, Kanpur Nagar, Unnao, Lucknow and Barabanki, Ayodhya, Sultanpur and Jaunpur, it reached Varanasi.
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