Mahakumbh Nagar, Amrit thoughts: The last bathing festival of Mahakumbh started on Wednesday with the Ghosh of ‘Har Har Mahadev’. Since Wednesday, devotees continue to take a dip in the Ganges and Sangam. Meanwhile, the government wreaths on the devotees by helicopter. Officials said that till eight o’clock in the morning, more than 60 lakh devotees took a dip in the Ganges and Sangam. In this way, more than 65.37 crore devotees have taken a dip in the Ganges and Sangam in Mahakumbh so far and the figure is likely to cross 66 crores by evening.
CM said- Har Har Mahadev
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath congratulated the people on Mahashivaratri and wrote on the social media forum ‘X’, “Mahakumbh 2025, Prayagraj, dedicated to the worship of Lord Bholenath in Prayagraj, on the holy bathing festival of Mahashivratri today Heartfelt greetings to all the revered sage saints and devotees. “He said,” Tribhuvanapati God Shiva and virtuous Salila Maa Ganga should do welfare of everyone, this is a prayer. Everywhere Shiva.”
Mahakumbh-2025, On the holy bathing festival of Mahashivratri dedicated to the worship of Lord Bholenath in Prayagraj, a heartfelt greeting of all the revered saints, saints, kalpa dwellers and devotees who came to take a dip of faith in Triveni Sangam today!
Tribhuvanapati Lord Shiva and Virtha Salila Maa Ganga everyone…
– Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) February 25, 2025
Chief Minister Yogi reached the control room from four o’clock in the morning on the last bathing festival of Adityanath Mahakumbh. Due to his stay in Gorakhpur, a control room has been established for him in the Gorakhnath temple itself, where he was seen monitoring the bathing festival every moment. According to the government statement, earlier Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had held a meeting with the officials in the ‘War Room’ in the morning on the occasion of Basant Panchami and Magh Purnima Amrit bathing and monitored the situation.
The first bathing festival in Mahakumbh to be held every 12 years began on 13 January and devotees from every corner of the country are reaching Mahakumbh on Mahashivaratri. Pradeep Gupta, who came with his friend from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, took a dip in the Sangam. He said, “I want to get out of here as soon as possible because the crowd is growing a lot and there is a fear of getting caught in the crowd here.”
At the same time, Ajay Jain, who came from Delhi to take a bath to his old mother, somehow reached the octroi intersection and parked the car there and took a motorcycle and went to take the mother to bathe in Triveni Sangam. He had to face some trouble due to the declaration of ‘no vehicle zone’. According to Hindu mythology, Lord Shiva played an important role in the churning of the ocean, causing the nectar urn from the sea churning and its drops where the Kumbh Mela falls there.
In the six bathing festivals of Mahakumbh Mela, three bathing festivals were of Amrit bath and they were held on January 14, Mauni Amavasya on 29 January and Basant Panchami on February 3, and all 13 akhadas have gone away from the fair by bathing Amrit. In view of the huge crowd of devotees at the Mahakumbh Mela, the fair and the district administration declared a ‘no vehicle zone’ in the district and fair area on the eve of Mahashivaratri. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) (Kumbh) Vaibhav Krishna told, “We have made extensive arrangements at five major pagoda in the fair area to handle a crowd of devotees. We are likely to be more crowded on Wednesday than on Tuesday. ”
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