The Uttarakhand government on Monday mooted the idea of creating a “photography point”, named after the film Kedarnath’s lead actor, late Sushant Singh Rajput, triggering objections from🏅 the Congress.
The government said late actor’s fans among devotees and tour𒆙ists visiting Kedarnath may have their photographs shot at this point in Ke💃darnath, but the Congress said that establishing such a location at a religious place will be improper.
Uttarakhand Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj said the st❀ate’s Tourism Department has been asked to make a scheme on this issue. “I have mooted the idea of establishing a photography point in Kedarnath after Rajput who had made a good film over the place. We want to pay tributes to him by installing his pওhotograph here,” the minister told reporters.
The minister also said he has asked his department to invite Bollywood filmmakers to explore the opportunity of making films in Uttarꦇakhand as it would promote tourism in the state.
Based on the 2013 tragic deluge in Kedarဣnath, the film Kedarnath, starring Rajput and Soha Ali Khan, was made in 2018 and was🅰 largely shot in Kedarnath and neighbouring areas. In this film, Rajput had played the role of a person carrying devotees to the shrine in a chair strapped to his back.
Congress general secretary and Uttarkhand’s former Chief Minister Harish Rawat objected to the minister’s proposal to create a “memory point” for a human being in a rel💖igious place as “improper”.
"What is the logic of having a man’s memory point in a place ♐like Kedarnath, the abode of Lord 𝐆Shiva?" Rawat asked. "What do you want to do by creating such a point at a place where Lord Kedar and Lord Badrinath reside?” he further asked.
Rawat said after snowfalls, Kedarnath turns into a magnificent place with a slew of possi⛦bilities to promote tourism. “On a simple study of Kedarnath durin꧃g my tenure as the state's chief minister, I found endless tourism possibilities there but on a deeper meditation, I realised that it is a spiritual place with its unique traditional moorings and I cannot tinker with it,” he said.
(With PTI inputs)
