DESPITE THE recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee and the Allahabad High Court that the cleaning of river Ganga in Allahabad should be attended to with all earnestness, no serious efforts have been made in this direction. As a result, sants and devotees are facing a tough time in the Magh Mela.
The sants as well as other Kalpvasis have announced to go on warpath from today because of black and yellow stinking water in Ganga. Even the saints fraternity has refused to take a holy dip on Mauni Amawasya enraged at government's callousness to check pollution in Ganga whose water they said was no longer fit for rituals. The saints including Swami Vausdevanand Saraswati, Tikarmafi Baba, Narendra Saraswati, Gopalji Maharaj,Ghhyanshyam Acharya, Swami Chandra Bhusan Acharyaji and others have started agitation here on Tuesday and said they would take more stringent steps to restore the glory of Ganga. They said that if the situation is not salvaged, they would launch an agitation.
Vasudevanand warned that a time has come when the people would come out on street against the politicians and factory owners who had ganged up to pollute the holy river. A section of sadhus has already planned to go to court so that enough water may be made available at Sangam during the Magh Mela.
Kamlesh Singh, corporator, said that if all the 42 nullahs are tapped then the pollution in Ganga can be checked to a great extent during Magh Mela.
{{/usCountry}}Kamlesh Singh, corporator, said that if all the 42 nullahs are tapped then the pollution in Ganga can be checked to a great extent during Magh Mela.
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