Heavy rains and
inclement weather have disrupted the annual ‘Char Dhaam Yatra’ which takes
devotees to the shrines of Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunotri and Gangotri.
Heavy rains have
lashed the region in the past 48-hours, leading to stoppage of the air service
to Kedarnath shrine, which was ravaged in the flash floods in 2013 that killed
thousands.
Pilgrimage to
Badrinath was also hit for more than 12 hours on Wednesday with a big land
slide on the Badrinath highway. Cavalcade of the state’s home minister Preetam
Singh, who was going for inspection was also held up for more than an hour due
to a land block.
Officials informed
that a lot of mud had slipped on to the Kedarnath highway after heavy rains in
Soneprayag and the helipad was also damaged, leading to abandoning of the
chopper service to Kedarnath.
Inclement weather
also played truant for the high-profile visit of President Pranab Mukherjee who
had gone to the hill state on Wednesday to have ‘darshan’ of Kedarnath. He was
stuck at Gauchar for more than an hour but the weather did not permit the MI-17
that was to take him to Kedarnath to take off.
After more than one
hours of waiting, Mukherjee left for Dehradun and in the evening flew back to
New Delhi without the pilgrimage being accomplished.
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