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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee performs ‘Ganga Aarti’ on the bank of the river, at Babughat, in Kolkata on Thursday.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday inaugurated the Ganga Aarti — similar to the one held in Varanasi — in Kolkata’s Baje Kadamtala Ghat.
She said that the Aarti rituals will be held every evening.
“During the summer, the Aarti will be held at 7 p.m. while in the winters it will be organised at around 6 p.m.,” she said.
Priests perform Ganga Aarti during its inauguration by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on the banks of the Ganga river, in Kolkata on Thursday.
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A temporary platform on which the Aarti will be performed at the ghats on the Hooghly river will be removed every morning and set up again in the evening, Ms. Banerjee said.
During the ritual, priests chanted mantras in front of the Ganga Devi idol while the Chief Minister played a conch shell.
The Baje Kadamtala ghat on the river Hooghly was decked up for the event. Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, senior government officers and others were present at the programme.
Ms. Banerjee had directed the KMC to start Ganga Aarti on January 12, the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
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