Across 4 districts, flowers showered on kanwariyas from choppers as yatra reaches the last leg
In Meerut, DM Deepak Meena and SSP Vipin Tada showered petals from a chopper at the Augarnath temple, Delhi-Dehradun National Highway, Pallavpuram and the Shivaya toll plaza.
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Also, two assistant superintendents of police (ASPs), eight DSPs, 15 inspectors, 112 sub-inspectors and 550 constables have been assigned duties there”. Senior administration and police officials on Thursday showered flower petals from helicopters on Kanwar Yatra pilgrims on the Delhi-Dehradun national highway and other places in Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Baghpat districts.
This came a day after flower petals were showered on Shiva devotees from a bulldozer in Meerut on Wednesday.
The district magistrates and senior superintendents of police (SSPs) of the four districts showered petals on the pilgrims from helicopters, said DK Thakur, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Meerut zone.
In Meerut, DM Deepak Meena and SSP Vipin Tada showered petals from a chopper at the Augarnath temple, Delhi-Dehradun National Highway, Pallavpuram and the Shivaya toll plaza.
At Meerut’s Augarnath temple where thousands of devotees offer some of the holy water they carry on the penultimate day of the yatra on their journey back home elaborate security arrangements have been made.
SSP Tada said, “One unit of the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) commandos, three battalions of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), and two companies of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) have been deployed for security in and around the temple for Thursday and Friday. Also, two assistant superintendents of police (ASPs), eight DSPs, 15 inspectors, 112 sub-inspectors and 550 constables have been assigned duties there”.
Also, a police control room (PCR) was set up at the temple on Wednesday and the precincts are being supervised with the help of CCTV cameras.
With the Kanwar Yatra coming to a close on Friday (Shivratri), the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh has gone out of its way for the lakhs of devotees who walked on the 198-km Delhi-Dehradun highway since the beginning of the yatra on July 22.
Earlier, meat shops were directed to be closed during the course of the yatra and restaurants serving food were directed not to serve devotees with curry, dals and other items containing onion or garlic to “maintain purity of food”.
The yatra this year hit the headlines following the UP government’s direction to all restaurants and roadside eateries on the route to display names of their owners.
The order was enforced in Meerut, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur,Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts. The order was challenged in the Supreme Court through a petition and the apex court directed that following the government’s order was not mandatory for the eatery owners. Kanwariyas allegedly vandalised some restaurants in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and Ghaziabad districts for allegedly using onion and garlic in food.
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