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News India Live, Digital Desk: Controversy Over Kanwar Yatra 2025: For the devotees of Lord Shiva, the ‘Kandar Yatra’ is not just a journey, but a symbol of faith and sacrifice. Every year millions of Shiva devotees express their reverence by traveling difficult to Kavad. But a new controversy has arisen before this holy journey of 2025. Actually, Delhi Police has issued a directive. Under this, Kavad Seva Camps (CAMPS) have been advised not to use the name of any caste (jaati) or gotra on their banner and name plate.
Why is the matter hot? What is the relationship with ‘Identity Campaign’?
This instruction has come at a time when a ‘identity campaign’ is gaining momentum. The purpose of this campaign is to re -connect people with their ethnic, gotra and regional identity and make them feel proud. People associated with this campaign believe that in any religious work, especially rituals or resolutions in the Sanatan tradition, taking the name of their caste, gotra and village has been a centuries old practice. Through this, people not only are connected to their roots, but also recognize each other, especially in such collective events.
Now some people are considering this police order as part of a deep conspiracy. He believes that this may be a conspiracy to weaken the ‘Identity Campaign’ on the pretext of the sanctity of the Kandar Yatra, so that people of a particular ideology can be split up and cause dissatisfaction within them. They are raising questions as to why this is being banned on the freedom of identity or the freedom of its caste-mine, while it is only a matter related to cultural identity and not a threat to law and order.
Recently, restrictions were also revealed in many places about religious symbols like applying tilak-sandalwood or tying kalava, after which more resentment is being seen in religious and social organizations regarding this new order. It has to be seen that this order, which has probably come for the purpose of peace system, affects the centuries -old identity of the Kandar Yatra and the feelings of the devotees. At the moment, it has launched a new debate on the question of religious freedom and collective identity.