Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh on Sundey night served food and fruits to the thousands of devotees who visited Bamleshwari temple at Dongergarh, the famous pilgrimage of Chhattisgarh, on the occasion of Chaitr Navratri, said in an official statement here on Monday.
Dr Raman Singh, accompanied by his wife Veena Singh and son Abhishek Singh, spent about an hour serving the pilgrims at the pandal prepared by the late Sudha Devi Trust for the padyatris. The devotees have become emotional of the religious behaviour on the Chief Minister.
Member of Parliament Madhusudan Yadav, Civil Supplies Corporation chairman leelaram Bhojvani, Rajgami Sampada Trust chairman Santosh Agrawal, District Panchayat president Dinesh Gandhi, Women’s Commission member Dr Rekha Meshram, former MP Pradeep Gandhi, former president of district panchayat Bharat Verma and former vice president Sachin Baghel and many other peoples’ representation and common men also extended their services to the pilgrims.
Every year, on the occasion of Chaitr Navratri, the Sudha Devi Trust sets up service centre for the devotees, where the villagers continuously extend their services to the pilgrims.
Better arrangements have been made in the pandal for the service, medical check-up, stay etc of the devotees, besides providing food, breakfast, tea, fruits, drinking water. Arrangements for massage centre, mobile recharge facility, separate places for male and female devotees, toilets have also been made at the service centre.
The chief minister wished all the devotees on the occasion of Chaitr Navratri and also encouraged the workers engaged in the service of the pilgrims at the service centre.
While expressing his gratitude towards all the workers, women self-help groups, voluntary organisations and villagers engaged in the service of the devotees, the Chief Minister said that pandals were set up at various places with the assistance of voluntary organisations, so that the padyatris would not face any problem in their pilgrimage.
On reaching the pandal at litiya, the Chief Minister garlanded the picture of his father late Thakur Vighnaharan Singh and mother late Sudha Devi and paid tribute to them.