The Sri Ram Mandir Samiti would organise this year’s Rath Yatra in the State Capital on July 6. The founder and patron of the Shree Jagannath Rath Yatra Samiti, SC Satpathi informed newsmen here on Friday that the samiti organizes the Rath Yatra every year in Dehradun and this year also the Yatra would be organised with traditional pomp and show. He said that lord Jagannath is the reigning deity of Kalyuga and is the only God that comes out of its abode to give Dharshans to his followers.
Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat would also be present during the Rath Yatra. Satpathi said that the idols of lord Jagannath, Balbhadra, Subhadhra and Sudarshan would be washed amid chanting of mantras at the Ram Temple Deeplok Colony Ballupur road in morning of July 6.
The idols would be mounted on their Rathas and the procession would start. The Yatra would pass through Ballupur Chowk and Kishan Nagar Chowk. The Radha Krishna temple located at Kishan Nagar chowk is considered as the maternal uncle’s home of the lord and in this temple the procession would be accorded a grand reception. The Yatra would pass through Bindal Bridge, Connaught place, Clock Tower, Paltan market, Kotwali, Dhamawala, Hanuman Chowk, Sai Temple, Tilak road and reach again Ram temple Deep lok colony. The special Mahri dance and Prasad of Amalu bhoj would be new attraction in the yatra of this year.