CM sent off the pilgrims – Photo: Amar Ujala

Expansion Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan visited the Chief Minister’s pilgrimage from Raja Bhoj Airport in Bhopal on Sunday. launched the scheme. Close to different districts of the state 233 elderly pilgrims have been sent to Prayagraj by Indigo flight. . Madhya Pradesh has become the first state in the country which is providing the opportunity of free pilgrimage by air to the elderly. Before sending off the pilgrims, CM Shivraj honored the elderly pilgrims by presenting them with shawl-shreefal and also took their blessings by hugging them. On this occasion, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that these elders had never traveled by air , for the first time going on a pilgrimage by aeroplane. Earlier we used to see airplanes flying, now we are saying that we are going to fly in it ourselves. My mind is full of emotions. I feel that my life has also been blessed by making my elders go on pilgrimage. Everyone has a desire to visit the pilgrimage once before death, those who are rich go with their own money, but middle class families and poor brothers and sisters are not able to go for darshan. Once we had called an elderly panchayat, we were talking, then the elderly told me, son, before dying, get the pilgrimage done. From that the idea arose that elders should be made to go on pilgrimage. The CM said that earlier a wrong rule had been made, maybe one should go from one family. But we will make arrangements for more money. If grandfather goes, grandmother should also go. The mother is gone and the father is also gone, so now the pilgrimage will be done by the couple from the next flight. ,