Chamoli. The doors of Badrinath Dham will be closed on Saturday for winter. With this, Chardham Yatra will also end today. BKTC media in-charge Dr. Harish Gaur said that on Saturday, the fifth day of Panch Puja, Rawal will dress in female form and enshrine Goddess Lakshmi in the sanctum sanctorum of Badrinath temple.
After that Uddhav ji and Kuber ji will come to the temple premises and the doors of the Dham will be closed at 3:33 pm. BKTC President Ajendra Ajay said that all preparations have been completed for closing the doors.
Mother Lakshmi invited to visit Badrinath sanctum sanctorum
As part of the process of closing the doors of Badrinath Dham, Goddess Lakshmi was worshiped on Friday and invited to sit in the sanctum sanctorum of Badrinath temple. During this time worship was done in the temple.
On Friday, Dharmadhikari Radhakrishna Thapliyal and Vedapathi Ravindra Bhatt and priests of Lakshmi temple worshiped Goddess Lakshmi and offered her Kadhai. On this occasion, BKTC Vice President Kishore Panwar, Chief Executive Officer Yogendra Singh, Temple Officer Rajendra Chauhan, Dinesh Dimri, Shriram Dimri, Vipul Dimri, Vivek Thapliyal etc. were present.