Hindu devotees offer 51,000 metre long cloth to holy Ganges on 'Ganga Dussehra'

As per the Indian mythology, the appearance of Ganges on earth is a gift to mankind and is the result of atonement undertaken by Sagara dynasty's King Bhagirath. The tale further explains that Bhagirath prayed for the Ganges to descend onto the earth to wash the ashes of his dead brothers to give them salvation.

Vinod Gupta, another event organiser, says that this whole event was an attempt to purify the part of river Ganges that is flowing through Kanpur and build up the cleaning campaign started by central government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“We are offering her a cloth of 51,000 meters and it will be a Guinness record. This will not only give a unique status to Kanpur, a message from here will also go to honorable Narendra Modi to make the river flowing through Kanpur neat and clean,” explanied Gupta.

“We have one more request for honorable Narendra Modi, instead of focusing on paper work he should try close the increasing drainages in the city. Only then will our river become clean and pure. If they don't start this work soon, then we ourselves will close those drainages with our own hands and will accept any action against us,” he added.