New Delhi: The head of the Indian Medical Association has suggested the Indian government not to allow any festival celebrations in view of a possible third wave of coronavirus. IMA President Dr JA Jayalal requested the Center to reconsider its decisions regarding any kind of mass gatherings “as it can be dangerous”.
IMA President Dr JA Jayalal told news agency ANI, “It is not appropriate to hold any festival as it can be dangerous. IMA requests the government to reconsider its decision regarding any kind of mass gatherings. is.”
His advice to the Center comes on a day when Puri in Odisha and Ahmedabad in Gujarat took out the annual Rath Yatras of Lord Jagannath. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, devotees have been barred from attending the event, while sevaks who have received vaccine shots and tested negative for COVID-19 have been allowed to attend the rituals. .
In Jharkhand, the state government asked citizens to worship Lord Jagannath at their homes as the Rath Yatra will not be taken out this year due to the COVID-19 crisis.
In Kolkata, the organizing committees of the two famous Rath Yatras called off the festival and decided to keep it a low-key event within the temple grounds. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Kolkata has decided to discontinue the special Rath Yatra arrangements.
While the deities will be brought on a symbolic journey around the temple complex and perform all the rites, they plan to carry the idols in a car instead of a chariot to a site near Gurusadaya Road, build a small pandal there, and Deities there for the devotees.
According to legend, the deity, Jagannath and siblings Balabhadra and Subhadra Devi go to their aunt’s house (Masir Bari) during the Rath Yatra, rest there for a week, and then return to the main temple on the day of Ultaratha. Huh.
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