Over 1.57 crore devotees have visited the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi during the holy month of Shravan, with over 7 lakh visiting on the last Monday. VIPs including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman have also offered prayers.
A 41-member ASI team, led by the agency’s additional director general Prof Alok Tripahi, began the survey at 8am and it lasted till 5pm. The process was stopped at 12.30pm for two hours to allow Muslim devotees to pray at the 17th-century mosque
Over 5.50 lakh devotees, including "Kanwariyas", offered prayers to Lord Shiva at Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi on the second Monday of Shravan month.