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Ramdev offers prayers at Chhinnamasta
Yoga guru Swami Ramdev offered prayers at Chhinnamasta Bhagwati Temple in Saptari district on Saturday.Yoga guru Swami Ramdev offered prayers at Chhinnamasta Bhagwati Temple in Saptari district on Saturday.
On the occasion, Ramdev also delivered a discourse on yoga to hundreds of people present at the temple. He also urged people to stop the sacrifice of animals at the temple and sacrifice their ego instead.
A large number of his followers from various villages in the district and also from bordering Indian areas had arrived at the temple to welcome the yoga guru.
SP misbehaves journalists
Superintendent of Police Dibesh Lohani misbehaved with Nepali media persons during the programme at the temple.
SP Lohani also barred Nepali media persons from entering the temple to take pictures of the yoga guru. Around a dozen Indian journalists were allowed entry without any obstruction. When the Nepali journalists protested Lohani’s decision, he assaulted them.
The Saptari chapter of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) condemned SP Lohani’s misbehaviour against the journalists.