The New Indian Express ·
Viral reels draw record 18 lakh devotees to Jaipur’s Moti Dungri Ganesh Temple for Mehndi Utsav
JAIPUR: A wave of faith, fuelled by viral social media reels, drew a massive crowd to Jaipur’s famous Moti Dungri Ganesh Temple on Sunday, with unmarried men and women and their families arriving from across the country for the annual ‘Mehndi Utsav’.
Viral reels claiming that applying the temple’s Sinjara mehndi (henna) helps pave the way for marriage sparked such curiosity that devotees began arriving in Jaipur as early as Saturday night. People travelled from all over India, including from cities like Indore, Bhopal and Agra.
Despite the heat and humidity, devotees waited in queues for six to seven hours to receive the mehndi. By around 7 PM, the temple administration announced that the stock had run out.
