By News18,Vani Mehrotra
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On the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 75th birthday, members of the Bohra Muslim community in Colombo organised special prayers at their mosque.
The gathering prayed for the Prime Minister’s good health, long life, and continued success in serving India.
A video from the event showed community members offering prayers in unison, extending their wishes to the Prime Minister.
Watch: On PM Narendra Modi’s 75th birthday, special prayers were held at the Bohra Mosque in Colombo, where community members wished him good health, a long life, and continued success in serving India pic.twitter.com/2JIWIlIylc
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In India, PM Narendra Modi’s 75th birthday was marked in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi with Vedic rituals, a special ‘dugdhabhishek‘ (milk offering) to the Ganga, prayers at the Kashi Vishvanath Temple, inauguration of a cleanliness drive and celebrations in his adopted village of Jayapur.
At the historic Dashashwamedh Ghat, City South MLA Dr Neelkanth Tiwari, along with 108 Vedic scholars from Annapurna Rishikul Brahmacharya Ashram and Shastrarth Mahavidyalaya, performed the milk offering, chanting mantras to pray for PM Modi’s long life and the nation’s prosperity.
A special Ganga aarti is scheduled for the evening at Namo Ghat, while fruits were distributed in hospitals, orphanages and old-age homes earlier in the day.
Meanwhile, in Varanasi’s Jayapur village, the first village adopted by PM Modi under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana in 2014, residents celebrated by garlanding his portrait and cutting a cake at the panchayat bhawan.
News agency PTI quoted Varanasi Mayor Ashok Tiwari as saying that the municipal corporation marked the occasion by launching and inaugurating projects worth Rs 111 crore, including 65.68 km of road construction, repair and drainage work across all eight zones and five Assembly segments.
Renovation of 75 wells, construction of a 30-bed shelter home under Pandeypur flyover, registration of pet dogs and the launch of mobile animal capture vehicles were also announced.
Religious ceremonies, including ‘sahastraarchan‘ of Baba Kashi Vishwanath with 1,100 lotus flowers and a ‘maharudrabhishek‘, were organised by seers to pray for PM Modi’s health and national unity.
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