To welcome the pilgrims, the state government made special arrangements to shower flower petals from helicopters.
PRAYAGRAJ: Braving Covid fears, around 30 lakh pilgrims took a spiritual dip in Sangam to achieve divine salvation, amid tight security arrangements on the occasion of Mauni Amavasya during the ongoing Magh Mela in UP's Prayagraj on Thursday.
Lost in the teeming crowds, 1,500 people were reunited with their families by volunteers of Bhoole Bhatke Shivir and police.
To welcome the pilgrims, the state government made special arrangements to shower flower petals from helicopters.
धर्मनगरी प्रयागराज में मौनी अमावस्या के पावन अवसर पर आज कल्पवासियों एवं श्रद्धालुओं पर पुष्पवर्षा सनातन संस्कृति व… https://t.co/M4RoDCLolO— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) 1613032267000
Amid chants of ‘Jai Ganga Maiyya’ and ‘har har Gange’, the faithful started converging at Sangam — the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers — since Wednesday night and the flow was unabated till 6pm on Thursday evening.