The annual Kanwar Yatra in Uttar Pradesh has been cancelled this 12 months, a senior authorities official mentioned right here on Saturday night time.
The improvement got here a day after the Supreme Court mentioned it can not enable the Uttar Pradesh authorities “to carry 100% bodily Kanwar Yatra in view of COVID”, stressing that sentiments, together with spiritual, are subservient to the Right to Life.
“The Kanwar Yatra has been cancelled by the Kanwar Sanghs on the attraction of the Uttar Pradesh authorities,” Additional Chief Secretary Information Navneet Sehgal mentioned on Sunday.
The yatra was scheduled to start out on July 25.
The Uttarakhand authorities has already known as off the Kanwar Yatra citing fears expressed by specialists of a doable third wave of the pandemic and the danger posed by such gatherings.
The yatra goes on until the primary week of August and sees hundreds of Shiva devotees known as kanwariyas’ travelling totally on foot from neighbouring states, together with Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi to gather water from the Ganges in Haridwar.
The Centre had instructed the highest courtroom that the state governments should not allow any type of Kanwar yatra as a result of of the pandemic and preparations needs to be made for water from the Ganges to be obtainable by tankers at designated locations.
Uttar Pradesh had mentioned it was going forward with a pared-down symbolic model.
Earlier on Friday, the Supreme Court which had taken suo motu cognisance of the matter had requested the Uttar Pradesh authorities to tell by July 19 whether or not it could rethink its determination to carry a “symbolic” Kanwar Yatra.
