Nuh Shobha Yatra Live Updates: Haryana on high alert, schools, banks shut and internet suspended

Security measures have been beefed up everywhere as Haryana's Nuh gets ready for another religious Shobha Yatra that has been requested by Sarv Jatiya Hindu Mahapanchayat despite police authorities refusing permission. The ‘Shobha Yatra’ has been called for today (28 August). The VHP has chosen to proceed with the shobha yatra even though permission has been denied for it. 

According to Shatrujeet Kapur, director general of police for Haryana, the government had refused permission for the yatra because of a G20 Sherpa Group meeting that was slated to take place in Nuh from September 3 to 7.

August 28, 2023

Ahead of the VHP's call for procession, Inspector Kuldeep Singh, Haryana Police said "Security arrangements have been made in view of Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) call for Yatra today. The situation is peaceful here. Permission has not been granted to conduct 'Yatra'. Only locals of Nuh are allowed to enter the district, outside vehicles are returned from this point"

 August 28, 2023

Outsiders will be barred from entering Nuh and security has been beefed up in the district and other areas in view of the Sarv Jatiya Hindu Mahapanchayat's call for a 'shobha yatra' today, despite the authorities denying permission for the procession. Officials said police and paramilitary forces have been deployed to keep a strict vigil while security at inter-state and inter-district borders has also been tightened.

VHP Yatra In Nuh: All you need to know about 

• On August 13, the Sarv Jatiya Hindu Mahapanchayat gave a call to resume the Brij Mandal Shobha Yatra in Nuh on August 28 which was disrupted by the communal clashes in July.
• Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday asked devotees to offer prayers at temples in their neighbourhood on Monday instead of holding any 'yatra'. Permission has not been granted for the 'yatra', he said. "Instead of a 'yatra', people can visit temples in their areas for 'jalabhishek'," he said and asserted that it is the state government's responsibility to maintain law and order.
• August 28 (today) is the last Monday of the holy month of Shravan. A few locals said they have no objection to holding the religious procession if it is allowed but asserted that there should be no provocative sloganeering during the yatra.
• According to a police spokesperson in Nuh, 1,900 Haryana Police personnel and 24 companies of paramilitary forces have been deployed. No outsider will be allowed to enter Nuh. 
• All entry points to the district have been sealed and the road leading to the Malhar temple has also been closed, said the spokesperson. Traffic on the KMP Expressway and the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, however, will continue, the spokesperson added.

(with inputs from PTI)