Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 3 visited the Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand to pay to offer prayers at the holy Himalayan shrine whose portals were open after a six-month-long winter break. The Prime Minister is also expected to inaugurate a research centre at Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth in Haridwar at noon.
PM Modi was greeted by a huge number of people on his arrival in Kedarnath. He was also gifted a miniature temple by the authorities. “Tomorrow I will be visiting Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand. I will begin my Uttarakhand visit by praying at the Kedarnath Temple,” the Prime Minister had tweeted a day before he was scheduled to visit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand, gifted a miniature replica of the temple. pic.twitter.com/BJo32gbBA5
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Uttarakhand: Portals of Kedarnath thrown open, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the temple pic.twitter.com/7bYZNbW7Uk
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Kedarnath Temple in Uttarakhand pic.twitter.com/A7tahiJo5o
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Uttarakhand: Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets the crowd at Kedarnath temple pic.twitter.com/ynwSAqSZl5
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Prime Minister also took to Twitter to share that he was at the Kedarnath temple to offer prayers.
PM @narendramodi offers prayers at the Kedarnath Temple in Uttarakhand. https://t.co/Iy8hu3vQmx
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) May 3, 2017
#WATCH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets the crowd at Kedarnath temple #Uttarakhand pic.twitter.com/UyOon4GrIq
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This is Prime Minister’s first visit to the holy shrine after taking over the office of the Prime Minister. The new Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat had reached Kedarnath a day before the Prime Minister’s visit to check the preparations.
