Bageshwar Dham Pithadhiswar Dhirendra Shastri
Today is the birthday of Bageshwar Dham Pithadhiswar Pandit Dhirendra Shastri. On this occasion, a huge crowd of his well-wishers has started gathering at Bageshwar Dham located in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh. Recently there was a stampede during a satsang in UP’s Hathras. Hence the Madhya Pradesh Police has become alert regarding the celebrations to be held on Dhirendra Shastri’s birthday. On Wednesday night itself, the Madhya Pradesh Police had deployed police forces from five districts for Bageshwar Dham.
This police force will handle the responsibilities from crowd management to traffic during the festival. According to police officials, Bageshwar Dham Pithadhiswar had issued a video statement to his well-wishers on Tuesday. Citing the safety of the people, he requested that people should not come to Bageshwar Dham to celebrate his birthday, but should stay at home and celebrate the festival and worship Balaji Maharaj. Along with this, Pandit Dhirendra Shastri assured his followers that he would organize that grand event on the day of Guru Purnima.
People arrived despite Dhirendra Shastri’s appeal
The event will be held in an area of around 40 acres and there will be tight security arrangements. Despite this appeal, lakhs of his followers reached Bageshwar Dham by Wednesday evening. Seeing the situation, the Madhya Pradesh Police also went into alert mode. According to police officials, 4 to 5 lakh people are likely to reach Bageshwar Dham to celebrate Pandit Dhirendra Shastri’s birthday. Madhya Pradesh Police has completed all necessary preparations to manage such a big incident.
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Police forces of five districts came
Chhatarpur SP Agam Jain said that on this occasion the police force of the district has not only been deployed in Bageshwar Dham, the force has also been called from outside. He said that reserve police forces from five districts including Rewa, Panna and Satna have been called and deployed at Bageshwar Dham premises. On Wednesday night, SP and Additional SP Vikram Singh himself reached Bageshwar Dham and inspected the security arrangements and issued necessary instructions to the policemen and officials posted there.
According to SP Agam Jain, Chhatarpur DIG Lalit Shakyavar has also visited Bageshwar Dham and is constantly updating about the situation there. He said that as a precautionary measure fire brigade and health department teams have been deployed at the spot with all the equipment. Along with this, special preparations have also been made for traffic management in view of the heavy crowd here. Route diversions have been done at several places in this sequence.
