Overview
- With the festival entering Day 6, devotees worship Maa Katyayani as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath shared greetings and devotional messages.
- Heavy footfall that built on Sunday’s Day 4 for Maa Kushmanda saw long queues at key shrines, with IANS reporting early-morning lines across Delhi, Haridwar, Bilaspur and Katra.
- Coverage of Monday’s Day 5 for Maa Skandamata described steady crowds and smoother queue management at Delhi’s Jhandewalan and Kalkaji temples and large gatherings at Vindhyachal and in Ahmedabad.
- State officials confirmed cultural and devotional programmes across nearly 30 Uttar Pradesh temples from March 25 to 27, aligned with the Mission Shakti campaign and backed by crowd, water, sanitation, lighting and seating plans.
- Lifestyle explainers outlined day-wise puja steps and colours, and features spotlighted distinctive pilgrimage sites such as Ghatampur’s Shri Kushmanda Devi Mandir, where the deity is revered in a rare self-manifested pind.