Basant Panchami Shahi Snan at MAHAKUMBH 2025: Over 349M pilgrims have taken Snan in the Prayagraj Sangam since the start of the event. Mahakumbh 2025 was started on 13 January. on 3 Feb early this morning Yogi was seen monitoring the situation by himself at 3:30 am from the war room as it was the commencement of third shahi snan on the occasion of basant panchami.
The monitoring was primarily done as today was the Basant Panchami Shahi snan was the 3rd shahi snan out of 6 shahi snan of Mahakumbh 2025. New safety guidelines were implemented yesterday to avoid any kind of tragedy and mishap during the event.
New Guidelines for Basant panchami Shahi snan:
New guidelines have been issued for MAHA kumbh snan on Basant Panchami. VVIP passes were banned to make sure the equal access for all the devotees. Senior IAS officers who handled the earlier KUMBH melas have been deployed to oversee operations at this mela. Their experience of past Kumbh had made a markable progress to make the mela successful.
Why strict guidelines on Basant panchami Snan?
After January’s, 2nd Shahi snan in which Stampede incident took place and reportedly many peoples lost their lives. Stringent crowd control measures were taken to avoid such mishaps. Till now over 33 crore devotes have attended maha kumbh and millions more to be expected in last 23 days of Maha Kumbh 2025. Authorities were forced on flawless execution today. Special arrangements were made to make snan a Shahi snan.
Safety protocols including Energy teams deployment and Real time monitoring happened today. it was made sure each devotes follow subsequent rules and regulations to make the flow easy.
3:30 am this morning the Basant Panchami Snan attracts millions of viewers. UP chief minister was monitoring the situation since 3:30 in the morning gets appreciated by PM Modi as event went well. The 3 am excitement of the devotees was electrized some people said you will feel the energy by being there at the place. Niranjani akhara, Maha nirvana akhara Atal akhara than Juna akhara turn by turn took the holy dip. Udasin akhara who are Sanatani and so close Sikhism took the holy dip as well.
Akhara member told that the arrangements of Shobhayatra for each akhara was wonderful. And the whole Shahi snan event went well. Security was tight and authorities were all alerted. Over 1.6 million devotees took snan today.
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