From Kumbh to Mahakumbh | Radhakanta Barik

The jammed roads to the Kumbh religious conclave on the eve of ’Mahashivaratri’ explains the state of politics in India. Tax concessions to the upper middle class pushed them to have double dips: one in the Triveni and another in a hotel room. They have to protect themselves from disease. They will sell their vehicle and buy one from Trump’s nominee, Musk, who is establishing his car plant in India or importing the vehicles from the factory in China. They will leave Modi behind to join the ranks of Trump as their children are in America. If a religious event gets organized with the support of the state and it creates madness among local elites of Northern India and they come and congregate to take bath in the Kumbh and it is branded as the Mahakumbh and it turns into a manufactured religious event and the advertisments speak out that it is an event of unity with pictures of Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath. This creates fear in each sensible person that knowingly the event ends on Shivaratri day. Are they going to create a situation like Ram Mandir frenzy and they know the story of Shiva in Kashi and are they going to create another Rathyatra to push up Yogi as the ’Mahabhakt’ which looks like a theatre but it may create another stage of madness which would create riots in each city of North India and West India and by creating riots they may go for unity. Yogi government has already announced to send Ganga water to each district of UP to create a riotious situation.

According to scholars, there is no concept of Moksha, and the idea that going to Prayagraj to have a holy dip can cleanse the sins is an absurd idea in Hinduism. Furthermore, there is no text of ancient literature about any Mahakumb after 144 years, which needs to be probed further. The state can help in arranging for the pilgrims to attend the Kumba, but the state has no place to take pride in celebrating a religious festival. On all three grounds, the behaviour of Modi and Yogi is wrong according to the religious texts of Hinduism. Modi, in his article in Indian Express at the end of Mahakumb Mela, says that it is going to usher in