'Yamuna water more harmful than Covid', Hindu saints demand cleaning before March 9

A large number of saints returned from Vrindavan without taking part in the bathing ritual after seeing the state in which the Yamuna was at the time of the Kumbh 'Shahi Snan'.

Mathura in Uttar Pradesh's Agra division has been transformed into a religious destination with CM Yogi Adityanath seeming especially interested in the development of this district. With the Kumbh underway, a large group of Hindu saints conducted the first ritual bath in the Yamuna at Vrindavan. The saints expressed their utter displeasure at the state in which the Yamuna River is in. They claimed that the water of the Yamuna is more dangerous than the novel coronavirus. The principal saints of Akhada Parishad have started preparing the outline of the Maha Kumbh which will be organized in Haridwar next year. Warning the Uttarakhand government, the group of saints said that the state should not meddle with the religious beliefs and traditions of the saints in the name of Covid-19.