Huge rush at Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra New Delhi

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Huge rush at Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra New Delhi

 

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Huge rush at Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra Express News Service

Ludhiana, November 18: THOUSANDS of devtees thronged the Lord Jagannath Rath

Yatra in the city today. Hundreds of them took turns to pull the rath, singing

hymns in the praise of the lord.

The Yatra was flagged off late in the afternoon by Himachal Pradesh Chief

Minister Virbhadra Singh. The devotees of Lord Krishna danced with happiness

at the yatra, and distributed prashad along the way.

The Yatra is organised every year by the followers of International Society

for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Followers of the society converged to the

city for the yatra. All along the yatra, they surrounded the rath, and sang

and danced along. Hundreds of city residents joined the yatra too.

Traffic police was deployed along the route much before the yatra started. To

the relief of the commuters, the yatra was well managed. The roads were

blocked from the route from where the rally was passing.

Langar was organised for the devotees at Maharaja Regency, which included a

wide array of dishes, and five kinds of desserts for those with a sweet tooth.

Foreign devotees had also come for the yatra.