Modi and other dignitaries at ‘Pahind’ ceremony (Photos)
July 03, 2011
Modi and other dignitaries at ‘Pahind’ ceremony (Photos)
Ahmedabad, 3 July 2011
Presented above are the photographs of Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi performing ‘Pahind’ ceremony to flag off the Rathyatra from Ahmedabad’s Jagannath Mandir. Also seen in the photographs are Rajya Sabha MP and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)’s group President Shri Parimal Nathwani, minister of state Shri Pradipsinh Jadeja and minister of state Shri Praful Patel. Ahmedabad Mayor Mr. Asit Vora, MLAs, Mahant of the Jagannath temple Shri Dilipdasji Maharaj and trustees of the temple were present on the occasion.
Amid a religious atmosphere, Chief Minister Mr. Narendra Modi flagged off the 134th Rath Yatra today morning from the Jagannath temple in Ahmedabad.
This was for the tenth consecutive year that Mr. Modi performed the Pahind ceremony and worshiped the Lord Jagannath with golden chamar (brush) in the main chariot of the Lord Jagganath.
Chief Minister described the Lord Jagannath as a lord of poor and deprived people. He wished that the Lord will shower his blessing in the form of rain and the festival will bring prosperity to the people.
He said the festival of Rath Yatra is being celebrated in about 110 places in Gujarat and is a unique religious tradition in which the Lord himself symbolically moves out in the city to meet his devotees.
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