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Car festival today

Special Correspondent

Visakhapatnam: Utkal Sanskrutika Samaj, a premier socio-cultural organiation, will celebrate the annual Rath Yatra or car festival on Monday. The chariot carrying Lord Sri Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra will be pulled by devotees irrespective of their caste or creed, from the Jagannath temple near AIR Station at Siripuram to the Gundicha Ghar at Lawson’s Bay Colony near Shanti Ashram, according to Samaj secretary S.K. Basantia.

The Bahuda Yatra or return journey would be held on July 24, he said.

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