Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government's order conferring the status of places of pilgrimage to Vrindavan and Barsana in Mathura only partially fulfils a pre-poll promise, disappointing priests. The BJP had said before the Assembly polls that the entire district of Mathura would be declared as a centre of pilgrimage. Kantanath Chaturvedi, president of an association of priests in Mathura, said his organisation would start a movement against the BJP government for failing to declare the whole of Mathura district as a pilgrimage centre. Mathura district tourism officer D.K. "Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, Vaishno Devi in Jammu and Kashmir and Shirdi in Maharashtra too are notified pilgrimage centres," Sharma said.

Source: The Telegraph October 28, 2017 19:52 UTC