‘Can’t play around with lives’: Pushkar Dhami calls off kanwar yatra

“At a time when the threat of Covid-19 is still looming and a case of the Delta-plus variant has also been reported from Uttarakhand, we cannot allow Haridwar to become a hotbed of the pandemic,” Dhami said. This is the second year in succession that the kanwar yatra has been cancelled.

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