Gudi Padwa celebrations: Vibrant processions in traditional Marathi attire fill the streets
The festival of Gudi Padwa is being celebrated across Maharashtra with joy and enthusiasm. Homes are adorned with ‘Gudis’, and vibrant festivities fill the air, as people rejoice with fervour and grandeur. The festival marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year and falls in the month of Chaitra, usually in March or April. (Image: PTI)Colourful processions filled the streets as men, women, and children adorned in traditional attire participated in Gudi Padwa rallies. The festivities featured lively music performances, traditional dhols, and lezim dances, adding to the vibrant spectacle. (Image: PTI)Women dressed in traditional ‘navvari’, or nine-yard sarees, rode bikes in the processions taken out in Nagpur, and Mumbai’s Girgaon area. (Image: PTI)The day is marked by people cleaning their houses, decorating them with colourful rangolis and hoisting the gudi — a bamboo stick decorated with a colourful cloth tied to a ‘kalash’ at the top and a garland of flowers attached to it along with mango leaves and neem leaves. (Image: AP)In Thane city, neighbouring Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde participated and greeted people during a procession. The festive rally began from the Kopineshwar Mandir where Shinde carried a palanquin of the presiding deity of Kopineshwar temple on his shoulders along with others. (Image: Eknath Shinde/X)Union minister Piyush Goyal, who is BJP’s nominee from Mumbai North Lok Sabha seat, stepped into his new house on the auspicious occasion of Gudi Padwa. Goyal along with his wife Seema, performed a puja and put up a decorated ‘Gudi’ at his home in Borivali area. (Image: PTI and Piyush Goyal/X)Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and actor Prajakta Mali offered prayers during the Gudi Padwa festival, in Nagpur. (Image: PTI)Dressed in a traditional attire, actor Isha Koppikar hoisted a ‘gudi’ on the auspicious occasion. She adorned a red and yellow saree and completed the look with traditional jewellery. (Image: PTI)Actors Rahul Dev and Mugdha Godse also hoisted ‘Gudi’ and offered prayers to mark the beginning of the New Year. (Image: PTI)
