23,000 personnel, AI-enabled cameras: Ahmedabad all set for Rath Yatra today

While the police has already deployed Artificial Intelligence -aided cameras for crowd control, besides over 23,000 personnel from the police, para-military and civil defence, in a post on X, the Ahmedabad city police warned action against those posting provocative or fake messages on social media or forwarding them.

The 16-km-long route of the Rath Yatra will pass through narrow streets and some communally sensitive areas of the walled city where the police have identified around 152 “sensitive points” along the route.

“The Ahmedabad police will be constantly monitoring social media. Action will be taken against illegal activities, rumour-mongering and (those) circulating fake messages,” the Ahmedabad police posted.

On Thursday, like every year, Congress leaders, including the Congress Legislative Party leader Amit Chavda, visited the temple and performed an aarti.