Union Home Minister Amit Shah performed 'Mangla Aarti' at Jagannath temple in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Sunday morning ahead of the Rath Yatra 2024. He was accompanied by his wife, Sonal Shah, at the temple. Meanwhile on Sunday, Patel also performed the 'PahindVidhi' or the symbolic cleaning of the path for chariot of Jagannath for Rath Yatra

Following a decades-old tradition, the procession, led by chariots, began at around 7 am from the 400-year-old Lord Jagannath temple in the Jamalpur area and will return by 8 pm after passing through various localities in the Old City, including some communally sensitive areas.

The three chariots of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra, and Subhadra—Nandighosha, Darpadalana, and Taladhwaja—were brought to the Singha Dwara of Puri Srimandir ahead of the Jagannath Puri Rath Yatra.

The Rath Yatra, also known as the Chariot Festival, is believed to be as old as the Jagannath Temple in Puri