DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday went to Haridwar to greet pilgrims who had come to the state for the ongoing two-week kanwar yatra. At an event held in the morning at Om Ghat in Haridwar, the CM washed the feet of around a dozen kanwarias, garlanded them and handed them baskets containing ‘prasad’ and ‘gangajal’. Dhami is the first Uttarakhand CM to wash the feet of kanwarias.
“I see the image of lord Shiva in each devotee. We have kept aside a separate budget for the kanwar yatra. We will do all that we can to ensure that the kanwarias do not face any problem while in Uttarakhand,” the CM said.
