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Devotees offer Chhath prayers in Delhi parks and makeshift ponds
Hindustan Times
|November 20, 2023
Thousands of devotees lined up in waist-deep water at the Yamuna ghat near ITO on Sunday evening to offer "arghya" to the Sun God on the occasion of Chhath puja on Sunday.
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On the third day of the four-day-long festival, the devotees who were fasting and their families prayed to the setting sun and carried out rituals at the makeshift ponds, the river and canals covering more than 1,000 locations across the Capital. Monday is the final day of celebrations where offerings will be made to the Sun.
Many of these ghats were frequented by senior ministers, members of Parliament and government officials.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal joined the devotees from the Purvanchali community in his electoral constituency New Delhi. He visited the ghats developed at Lakshmi Bai Nagar, East Kidwai Nagar, and Kali Bari and shared a clip of him praying and then interacting with the devotees on his official X handle.
"Along with all my Purvanchali brothers, sisters and mothers of Delhi, I participated in the great festival of folk faith 'Chhath Puja', offered Arghya to Lord Surya and prayed to Chhathi Maiya for everyone's good health, happiness, prosperity and happy life," Kejriwal posted in Hindi on X.
This story is from the November 20, 2023 edition of Hindustan Times.
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