Hare Krishna! 34th annual Baroda Jagannath Rathayatra festival 2015
The Jagannath Rathayatra festival was seen by approximately four lakhs (400,000) local residents. Many devotees commented that the size of the crowds right from the Railway Station were noticably more than in past years! Before the Rathayatra procession began in the afternoon, prominent elected leaders of society visited the Sri Sri Radha Shyamsundar Mandir at ISKCON Baroda in the morning for darshan of the Deities. The dignitaries included the Honorable Mayor of Baroda, Sri Bharatbhai Shah, Deputy Mayor Smt. Sunita Shukla, Baroda City President of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Sri Bharat Dangar, Leader of the opposition Congress Party in the Baroda Municipal Corporation, Sri Chandrakant (Batu) Shrivastava, Vuda (Vadodara Urban Development Corporation) Chairman Sri Naranbhai Patel, and Municipal Commissioner, Sri H.S. Patel (IAS).
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