In a first, police personnel deployed for crowd control duty in the sanctum sanctorum of the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi have started wearing dhotis kurtas from Monday in deference to worshippers\u2019 sentiments.<\/p>\n
The new dress code \u2014 yellow kurta and dhoti for male cops and white salwar and blue kurta for policewomen \u2014 has been implemented following a persistent demand by the Shri Kashi Vishwanath Mandir Trust which runs the temple, one of Hinduisms holiest places.<\/p>\n
The trust had objections to police personnel in uniform because a leather belt was also a part of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new dress code will not be effective on police personnel deployed on the premises (outside sanctum sanctorum) of the temple,\u201d said Shailendra Kumar Rai, superintendent of police (security).<\/p>\n
Rai said 18 constables have been provided with the new uniform.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will manage the crowds of devotees around sanctum sanctorum in six-hour rotation duty,\u201d said the SP.<\/p>\n
Trustee Pt Prasad Dixit said, \u201cTrust members had raised the issue of implementing dress code several times before the administrative and police officials. Eventually, it has been implemented and we welcome it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Locals too have welcomed the decision. \u201cIn baba\u2019s durbar, everyone should be in traditional style, be it a cop, devotee, or anybody else,\u201d said Mahesh Yadav, a Shiva devotee residing near Kashi Vishwanath Temple.<\/p>\n
The temple is situated in a high-security zone. Armed policemen on security duty outside the sanctum sanctorum will not come under the new dress code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a first, police personnel deployed for crowd control duty in the sanctum sanctorum of the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi have started wearing dhotis kurtas from Monday in deference to worshippers\u2019 sentiments. The new dress code \u2014 yellow kurta and dhoti for male cops and white salwar and blue kurta for policewomen \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}