Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath Bans Marriage In Prayagraj During Kumbh Mela

If you are planning to get married early next year and the location might be Prayagraj (Allahabad). It’s not happening. Looking at the Kumbh Mela in the early next year the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh issues an order to cancel all marriage from January 15th to March next year.

This news came as a shock to the people who already had planned there marriage before a long time. The owners of function halls are also not as happy as it used to be the peak season for marriages. Not to have any inconvenience wedding dates are finalised long before so even the booking of function halls.

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Keeping all those things aside Yogi government had issued a strict order to all the function halls. The order issued not to organise any function during from one day before the Kumbh Snaan to one day after. The Kumbh Snaan usually lasts between January to March. The government also issued order to return any advance they have taken.

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Now the people who have already scheduled there wedding during the days may have to postpone or shift the place altogether.

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These are key snaan during the holy Kumbh Mela. Two in January “Makar Sankranti and Paush Poornima.” February will witness “Mauni Amavasya, Basant Panchmi and Maaghi Poornima.” In March Mahashivratri snaan. The wedding will not take place a day before and a day after these snaan during Kumbh Mela. Devotees are expected to turn in massive number during these days in Kumbh Mela.

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Earlier, CM Yogi had ordered for a closure of all tanneries in Kanpur from December 15, 2018, to March 15, 2019, to keep river Ganga clean during the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj.

Kumbh Mela witness highest gathering in the world and is said to seen from the space.

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