The four-day festival will come to a close with the devotees offering water, arghya, to the setting sun on Sunday, and the rising sun on Monday.
Thousands of devotees on Sunday evening thronged the ghats on the Yamuna and water bodies and makeshift ponds across the capital to celebrate Chhath Puja after two years of muted festivities due to Covid-19 pandemic related restrictions.
The four-day festival will come to a close with the devotees offering water, arghya, to the setting sun on Sunday, and the rising sun on Monday.
Sarla Jha (57), a devotee who offered prayers at ITO ghat on Sunday, said for the last two years her family were celebrating Chhath at their Laxmi Nagar house in east Delhi, but since Covid restrictions have been lifted they decided to join community celebrations. The Chhath ghats are decked with flowers, plants, lights and decorative items where devotees with their family members and friends gathered to pray on Sunday evening. The devotees, who are on over 30 hours fast, stood in the water while offering prayers.
Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia visited Chhath ghats in Patparganj to take stock of the arrangements and interact with devotees, while BJP MLA and leader of the opposition in Delhi assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri visited the ghats in his constituency Badarpur and interacted with devotees. Several other Aam Aadmi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders visited ghats and ponds across the city to talk to the devotees there.