Kedarnath Temple: Recently, Kedarnath Temple, which has been in the news due to several controversial videos, has been banned from entering with mobile phones, taking photos and making videos. Shri Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee, responsible for the arrangements of the temple, has put up boards in this regard at various places in the temple premises. It has been said in these boards that do not enter the temple premises with mobile phones, any kind of photography and videography inside the temple is completely prohibited and you are under the surveillance of CCTV cameras.
In some other boards, it has been asked to wear only modest clothes in the temple and temple premises, while in another board it has been said that setting up a tent or camp in the temple premises is a punishable offense. These boards, written in Hindi and English, clearly state that legal action will be taken if caught doing so. Recently, many such videos made in the Kedarnath temple located in the Garhwal Himalayas were circulated on social media, about which objections were expressed by pilgrims, common devotees and social media users and condemned such acts in religious places as wrong.
In one video, where a vlogger was seen proposing to her male friend in a dramatic way on her knees in the temple premises, in another video, a woman was seen blowing notes in the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. Apart from this, many people were seen making reels in the Kedarnath temple. Shri Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee President Ajendra Ajay said that a religious place has a dignity, beliefs and traditions and devotees should behave accordingly. He said that although no such complaints have come in Badrinath Dham yet, soon such boards will be installed there too.
