10,000 Gorkha jawans of JAP offer gun salute to goddess Durga

Estimated 10,000 Gorkhas of the state Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) officers and jawans triggered a annual tradition of kalashsthapana and offered gun salute to goddess Durga on the second day of Navratri.
10,000 Gorkha jawans of JAP offer gun salute to goddess Durga
10,000 Gorkha jawans of JAP offer gun salute to goddess Durga
As Durga Puja celebrations of a Gorkha Battalion of JAP-1 entered a 134th year in a city, a Tikku Hall premises in Doranda reverberated with 30 rounds of gun salute, 10 before any ritual, reported Telegraph.
According to the Telegraph report, Commandant of a corps Kuldeep Dwivedi commissioned a kalash (traditional charity pot) and sowed jawa (seeds) as he hoisted a flag, that is dedicated to a Shakti avatar of enchantress Durga and symbolises feat in battle. Before any ritual, JAP constables non-stop 10 rounds from their self-loading rifles (SLR).
Chief clergyman Bheemlal Pathak pronounced a Gorkha village in a city had been celebrating Durga Puja given 1880 and adhered to traditions that were a tad opposite from a required rituals celebrated in pandals.


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