Colorful lighting fixtures lit up buildings and mud lamps dotted homes as others across the country celebrated Diwali with pomp Monday after two years of quiet festivities due to the pandemic.
People, dressed in their finery, exchanged chocolates and gifts, visited temples and greeted each other.
However, some restrictions on the explosion of firecrackers in the country’s capital remained.
President Draupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the country’s other inhabitants and hoped that the festival will bring happiness, well-being and the spirit of mutual cooperation and harmony.
As in previous years, Prime Minister Modi celebrated Diwali with soldiers. This time in Kargil.
Addressing the soldiers, he said India opposes war but is also under pressure from the need for strength for peace and affirmed that its developing strength increases the chances of world peace and prosperity.
India stands for peace and has regarded war not as the first but as the last resort, but its armed forces have the strength and methods to give a correct reaction to anyone who has the wrong view on the nation, he said.
The whole world is looking at India as a “balancing force,” he told foot soldiers at the site of the armed forces’ heroic exploits in the Kargil War in 1999 when India pushed back Pakistani forces.
Modi invoked the epics of the Ramayana and Mahabharata to claim that war is in Indian culture, whether in Lanka or Kurukshetra, and that the country is synonymous with world peace.
One of the most popular Hindu festivals, Diwali relates to the day when Lord Ram is said to have returned to Ayodhya with his wife Sita and brother Lakshman after defeating Ravana in his 14 years of exile and is considered a birthday party of the victory of intelligent over evil.
At the Attari-Wagah border in Punjab, members of the Border Security Force (BSF) handed out chocolates to their Pakistani counterparts. The leaders of the two forces shook hands and exchanged greetings for a few minutes.
BSF and Pakistan Ranger also exchanged chocolates at other border points, adding Samba, Kathua, RS Pura and Akhnoor in Jammu and Kashmir.
Delhi Deputy Governor VK Saxena and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wanted happiness and prosperity for the other people of Diwali City.
Delhi’s air quality has become “very bad” today amid an accumulation of burnt stubble, exploding firecrackers and adverse weather conditions, which have allowed pollutants to accumulate.
However, the 24-hour average air quality index (ICA) of 312 remains the most productive time for Diwali Day in seven years. Prior to that, the city had registered an AQI of 281 in Diwali in 2018.
The Delhi government has reimposed a total ban on the production, sale and use of all firecrackers until Jan. 1, adding Diwali, a practice it has been following for two years.
To mark the occasion, Madhya Pradesh Prime Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan dined with more than 400 young people orphaned by COVID-19 and entrusted them with the government’s full support for their education.
Chouhan and his wife Sadhna Singh hosted a party for young people at the leading minister’s office in Bhopal on Sunday night. “This is your mother’s house (maternal uncle),” the leading minister said, adding that he sought out the young people to have fun. , be satisfied and cheerful.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath conveyed Diwali’s greetings and suggested that the people’s representatives and workers celebrate the festival with the poor and needy.
“It is our effort that today each and every space is illuminated through the spirit of harmony, there is ‘Ramatv’ everywhere,” he said in a tweet.
The leading minister said he took “darshan” at Ram Lala Temple and Hanuman Garhi in Ayodhya on Diwali Day.
The rest of the people of Goa celebrated Diwali by burning mass effigies of the Narakasur demon in the early hours of the festival as a long-standing culture, marking the victory of intelligence over evil.
The Narakasur Vadh (killing the devil) competitions began in the state capital, Panaji, and in cities such as Margao and Vasco, at night, and continued until the early hours of today.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant greeted others in the case and expressed hope that the festival will bring peace, joy and prosperity to the state.
Several leading ministers and governors also sent their greetings from Diwali.
“I pray to God that each and every diyaon on this day of Diwali will bring you good fortune and fitness at home,” Punjab Prime Minister Bhagwant Mann said in a video message.
Bandi Chhor Divas coincides with Diwali and marks the historical liberation of the sixth Sikh guru, Guru Hargobind, with 52 Mughal kings in 1620.
Mann also asked others to celebrate a green Diwali.
“Pollution is a challenge and it has a challenge. Therefore, efforts should be made to celebrate Green Independence Day,” he said.
Maharashtra Prime Minister Eknath Shinde, while attending a Diwali event in his hometown of Thane, said: “May this Diwali bring prosperity and fitness for all of you. We will have to drive the progress of the state and bring justice to all. layers of society An era of progression has begun.
He also announced the new housing program of the City and Industrial Development Corporation under which 7,849 affordable apartments will be available in Bamandongri and Kharkopar in the Ulve district of Navi Mumbai.
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The Festival of Lights was also held in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. According to a Supreme Court order, the Tamil Nadu government specified that the biscuits would be damaged from 6 am to 7 am and from 7 pm to 8 pm.
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