DEV DEEPAWALI

Nov. 29, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Varanasi on 30 November 2020 and will attend the festival of Dev Deepawali.

About:

  • The Dev Deepavali is also known as "the Diwali of the Gods" or "Festival of Lights of the Gods".

  • It is the festival of Kartik Poornima celebrated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

  • It falls on the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartika (November - December) and takes place fifteen days after Diwali.

  • The steps of all the ghats on the riverfront of the Ganges River, from Ravidas Ghat at the southern end to Rajghat, are lit with more than a million earthen lamps (diyas) in honour of Ganga and its presiding goddess.

  • The gods are believed to descend to Earth to bathe in the Ganges on this day.

Source : PIB