On the second day, Shri Darbar Sahib Mahant Devendra Dass delivered ‘Guru Mantra’ to the ‘Sangat’ (devotees) devotees on Saturday and the premises of Shri Darbar Sahib echoed with the sacred breeze of the slogans of holy songs and praise of Guru Maharaj.
A series of special prayers, ‘Darshan’ of Guru and pray for fulfilment of blessings was done. Maharaj delivered ‘Guru Mantra’ and blessings to the ‘Sangat’ at 7:30 am. While addressing the Sangat, he explained the importance of Guru in one’s life and said that leading a simple live and doing good deeds quashes every problem being faced by the devotees and also advised them to regular with prayers.later, VK Nautiyal, coordinator, Shri Darbar Sahib, told that ‘Sangat’ will carry out “Nagar Prakirma” (religious procession) in the different parts of the capital city on Sunday.
The “Nagar Prakirma” will start from 9:00 am in the morning from Shri Darbar Sahib and passes through Saharanpur Chowk, Kanwali Road and reach at Shri Guru Ram Rai Public School, Bindal. After this, the ‘Sangat’ will move towards the Clock-tower, Darshan lal Chowk, Tehsil Chowk, Prince Chowk and then will reach lakhi Bagh, lakkar Mandi and then Shri Guru Ram Rai Public School, Bhandari Bagh.
At Bhandari Bagh school, the ‘Sangat’ devotees will be distributed the ‘Prasad’. Meanwhile, devotees continue to reach to capital city to witness the Mela from across the capital city. Dozens of amusements rides continue to attract devotes at the Mela and devotees were also found busy procuring different articles. The Mela administration claimed that necessary arrangements have been made by them in order to any kind of inconvenience to devotees.
Meanwhile, huge strength of the devotees who gathered across the country continued to cause traffic congestion at major inter-crossing near Mela site. While talking to The Pioneer, Naresh Sharma, auto rickshaw driver, lamented that any kind of procession is causing heavy traffic jams. In an exclusive interaction with The Pioneer, Home guard Atul Mishra said that it is very difficult to manage the traffic at the time of processions especially in evening because everyone is in hurry at that time and many people do not follow traffic rules properly. He said that, traffic in charge faces much difficulty while handling the traffic at the time of processions. These activities should be done outside the city or organized after 8:00 pm so that no one suffers its negative consequences, he added.
While talking to The Pioneer SP Traffic Dehradun, Pradeep Kumar Rai lamented that increasing number of two wheelers and four wheelers and the city is having a limited space is causing traffic congestion especially when processions takes place in any part of the capital city.