New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra on Saturday offered prayers at Kedarnath shrine in Uttrakhand. He is also expected to visit Badrinath before returning to Delhi.
While most of the media followed PM Modi to Kedarnath shrine BJP president Amit Shah's visit to Somnath temple in Gujarat - interestingly at the same time as that of the PM. What's more striking was that both the leaders offered their prayers at around the same time in two different shrine - located almost 1400 km apart.
With campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections coming to end, The Prime Minister is on a two-day official visit to Uttrakhand ahead of the polling for the seventh and the last phase of Lok Sabha elections. A total of 59 parliamentary constituencies, including Varanasi, will go to polls tomorrow and the counting of votes will take place on May 23.
In November 2018 also PM visited Kedarnath during Diwali. In 2017, he paid visits to the temple twice, once in May after its gate had opened following a six-month winter break and again in October, before the temple again closed for winters.
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Kedarnath shrine is one of the four holy shrines in Uttrakhand and is located at 11,755 ft above the sea level. Security was stepped up keeping in view, PM's visit.