A lot of crowd gathered in Ujjain on Shivratri. – Photo: SOCIAL MEDIA Expansion This time on Shivratri, the crowd of devotees who reached Omkareshwar and Ujjain broke the old records. On the first day of Shivratri, 2.5 lakh devotees reached all over Ujjain. Apart from this, there was a crowd in Omkareshwar as well. Traffic jam started happening on Indore Khandwa Road from Friday night itself. Heavy vehicles were stopped from going towards Khandwa Road by putting barricade at Tejaji Nagar intersection of Indore on Saturday morning. Those vehicles reached Khandwa via Thekri Khalghat. Due to hotel lodges in Ujjain and Omkareshwar being full, people from other cities stayed in Indore, now they will go to visit Ujjain Omkareshwar on Sunday. Kaustubh Banerjee, who came from Kolkata with his family, told that he had to visit Mahakal in Ujjain on Shivratri. But to go to Ujjain, the drivers are taking a fare of Rs 4,500. Apart from this, hotels were also not available. Instead of going to Ujjain and getting troubled in the crowd, we decided to stay in Indore on Saturday and then go to Ujjain to visit Mahakal. by alternate routes Reached Omkareshwar The work of four laning the Indore-Khandwa road is going on. Due to this, due to excavation on the road, traffic is disrupted many times. To avoid traffic jam, many devotees left for Omkareshwar from Friday night itself, but heavy vehicles were also plying on this route at night. Due to this the traffic on the road started getting disrupted. There was a queue of vehicles at Bherughat. Due to traffic jam, many devotees reached Omkareshwar via Jamgate, Mandleshwar, Nandra, Katargaon, Barwah and visited Shivji. Crowd was also seen in Maheshwar on Saturday. ,