680 million devoted from 13 January; Today still in the queue 810 thousand
The mega Hindu pilgrimage Maha Kumbh Mela, which, according to official data, from 13 January to today, has seen the city of Prayagraj, the city of Uttar Pradesh at the confluence of the Gange river with Yamuna and with Saraswati, defined mythical because in abundant, 640 million devotees.
The final rituals began in the middle of last night, in the presence of hundreds of thousands of faithful who continue, even in the last few hours, to get along in tails long kilometers, trying to reach the point where they will immerse themselves in the water, in the area considered sacred for the last “Snan”, the ritual bath that will purify them and will free them from the cycle of reincarnations.
The ritual immersion race on the last day of the festival only saw 830 thousand devotees today, which were greeted by repeated launches of quintals of rose petals made raining by a helicopter flotilla.
This final day coincides with another important holiday of the Hindu calendar: today is celebrated in fact Maha Shivaratri, in honor of the god Shiva. The authorities claim to have calculated the number of participants using the data collected by artificial intelligence and thousands of cameras, but it is practically impossible to verify its reliability, for the endless extension of the area involved by the event.
In spite of two serious accidents, one in Prayagraj, at the end of January, and the other, more recently, in a Railway station in Delhi, who saw at least 50 devotees crushed from the crowd, and almost 200 injured, the Maha Kumbh Mela was a triumph for the premier Narendra Modi and for the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Monaco Yogi Adityanath; The event, described with emphasis as the largest religious festival ever held in the history of the whole world, has become a powerful tool confirming the BJP policy, which promotes a vision of the entirely indicated Induel.
