A large number of devotees took a holy dip at the Sangam in the Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh on the commencement of the auspicious festival of Ganga Dussehra on Saturday.
A day before the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav offered prayers at Bhalka Tirth temple in Somnath on Monday. He wished that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would retain power and BJP would form the government again.
More than 19,000 pilgrims paid obeisance and offered prayers at the revered Shri Kedarnath Dham today, bringing the total number of pilgrims who had visited the shrine to over 6,00,000 on Sunday, according to the Uttarakhand government.
Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal and his wife Sunita Kejriwal offered prayers at Hanuman Mandir in Connaught Place in the national capital on Sunday.
"The news of the death of many people including children in a boat accident in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh is extremely sad. I express my deepest condolences to the bereaved families. I pray for the speedy recovery of those injured," the President said in a post on 'X'.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday offered prayers at Ram temple in Ayodhya and recalled his visit to the holy city as a young 'kar sevak' during the Ramjanmabhoomi movement and in the 1980s and 1990s.