PM Modi offers prayers at Kedarnath

PM Modi offers prayers at Kedarnath
Dehradun : Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid obeisance
at Kedarnath as the portals of the Himalayan shrine were reopened for devotees
after remaining closed for six months for the winters.
Accompanied by Uttarakhand Governor K K Paul and Chief Minister Trivendra Singh
Rawat, Modi arrived in an army chopper at the helipad built close to the temple
and headed straight for the shrine located at a height of over 11000 ft.
The temple doors were opened at 8.50 AM and the prime minister arrived just
about half an hour later to offer prayers and perform a 'rudrabhishek' in the
sanctum sanctorum of the centuries old shrine.
After 20 minutes, Modi, who was wearing a brown overcoat, emerged out of the
temple and waved to the crowds waiting outside for a glimpse of the Prime
Minister.
He was gifted a shawl, a rudraksha, a wooden replica of the temple and books on
the Himalayas by the priests of the temple as he came out of the shrine.
He did a 'parikrama' of the Nandi statue outside the temple before making way
through the crowds to convoy that was to take him back to the helipad.
The Prime Minister also went to the spot where a huge rock named Bhimshila had
rolled down from the mountains in the wake of the June 2013 deluge and got
stuck at the back of the temple.
Christened Bhimshila after the tragedy, also known as the Himalayan Tsunami,
the truck sized rock is credited with protecting the shrine from major damage.
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