South indian actress Navneet Kaur and Maharashtra MLA Ravi Rana got married yesterday at Science Core grounds, Badnera constituency in Maharashtra. The wedding ceremony was attended by an estimated 5 lakh guests, including the top film celebrities. This mass wedding ceremony is being considered as the biggest of the World.
n what is claimed to be a new world record, 3,612 couples got married at a single ceremony in a mammoth pandal set up here by Baba Ramdeo’s organisation. The most prominent couple to get married among the unusual gathering of the rich and poor was independent MLA Ravi Rana and actress Navneet Kaur. For most of the other brides and bridegrooms, the glittering marriage ceremony was nothing short of a dream.
Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, industry minister Narayan Rane, Baba Ramdeo, godmen Ramesh Ojha and Bhayyuji Maharaj, Muslim scholar Maulana Mehmood Madani and religious heads of Buddhist and Christian communities were present to bless the newly-wed couples at the multi-religious ceremony at the Science Score ground here on Wednesday.
Film actors Vivek and Suresh Oberoi, Aditya Pancholi and Kunika were among the tinsel town celebrities while the industry was represented by Subrato Roy of the Sahara group, Sudhakar Shetty and several other business tycoons. All of them praised the novel mass-marriage ceremony that was attended by over a lakh people.
There was an air of festivity in the city, which is a divisional headquarters, and it wore a busy and important look with traffic diversions and barricades at several places. The huge pandal covering some 4.5 lakh square feet with a huge dais and a ramp was attractively decorated with flowers. The white pandal with golden lace protected over a lakh people from the sun, as they waited for the VIPs to arrive.
Thousands of people, most of them guests of the would-be brides and grooms waited since 8.30am at the Science Score ground. However, the VIPs started rolling in only at around 12 noon. The ceremony started after Chavan, guardian minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and Nagpur MP Vilas Muttemwar reached the venue.
Thousands of people marched in the huge ‘baraat’ procession with all the bridegrooms. Starting from Dussehra Maidan, the procession wound its way through the city for 2.5km before reaching the mass-marriage venue. Arrangements for lunch had been made at the police grounds (Jog Stadium).The 28-year-old Badnera MLA Rana, who captured the public imagination with his youthful looks and politically correct stance of taking together all communities and castes, was the toast of the ceremony. Rana and Navneet, both staunch followers of Baba Ramdeo, belong to his inner circle of workers. Their chance meeting at Bandra Kurla Complex at one of the Baba’s yoga camps soon led to an ‘arranged marriage’, with the Baba bringing the two families together at his Haridwar Ashram.
The mass marriage afforded a chance to hundreds of couples to get married in a regal ceremony. In this cotton-soyabean belt, farmers and farm workers have been living in distress for the last decade because of recurring losses in agriculture due to uncertain climatic conditions. For most of them, incurring the heavy expenses of marriage ceremonies would have only aggravated the financial problems.
"I feel lucky to have got married at the ceremony along with MLA Rana," said Sachin Meshram, a RTO employee here, who married Reema Fulzele of Nagpur. "We could not afford to spend on a separate marriage ceremony," said Sachin.
Couples from all over Vidarbha had come down to tie the knot at the event covered by the national and international media. Chavan and other VIPs lauded Rana for organising the event that enabled thousands of poor couples to get married under one pandal. Industry minister Rane too blessed all the couple and wished them a happy married life.
Among those who entered wedlock at the venue on Wednesday were 2,443 Hindu couples, 739 Buddhists, 150 Muslims, 15 Christians, 252 couples from scheduled caste and nomadic tribes, and 13 blind or handicapped couples.
n what is claimed to be a new world record, 3,612 couples got married at a single ceremony in a mammoth pandal set up here by Baba Ramdeo’s organisation. The most prominent couple to get married among the unusual gathering of the rich and poor was independent MLA Ravi Rana and actress Navneet Kaur. For most of the other brides and bridegrooms, the glittering marriage ceremony was nothing short of a dream.
Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, industry minister Narayan Rane, Baba Ramdeo, godmen Ramesh Ojha and Bhayyuji Maharaj, Muslim scholar Maulana Mehmood Madani and religious heads of Buddhist and Christian communities were present to bless the newly-wed couples at the multi-religious ceremony at the Science Score ground here on Wednesday.
Film actors Vivek and Suresh Oberoi, Aditya Pancholi and Kunika were among the tinsel town celebrities while the industry was represented by Subrato Roy of the Sahara group, Sudhakar Shetty and several other business tycoons. All of them praised the novel mass-marriage ceremony that was attended by over a lakh people.
Thousands of people, most of them guests of the would-be brides and grooms waited since 8.30am at the Science Score ground. However, the VIPs started rolling in only at around 12 noon. The ceremony started after Chavan, guardian minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and Nagpur MP Vilas Muttemwar reached the venue.
Thousands of people marched in the huge ‘baraat’ procession with all the bridegrooms. Starting from Dussehra Maidan, the procession wound its way through the city for 2.5km before reaching the mass-marriage venue. Arrangements for lunch had been made at the police grounds (Jog Stadium).The 28-year-old Badnera MLA Rana, who captured the public imagination with his youthful looks and politically correct stance of taking together all communities and castes, was the toast of the ceremony. Rana and Navneet, both staunch followers of Baba Ramdeo, belong to his inner circle of workers. Their chance meeting at Bandra Kurla Complex at one of the Baba’s yoga camps soon led to an ‘arranged marriage’, with the Baba bringing the two families together at his Haridwar Ashram.
The mass marriage afforded a chance to hundreds of couples to get married in a regal ceremony. In this cotton-soyabean belt, farmers and farm workers have been living in distress for the last decade because of recurring losses in agriculture due to uncertain climatic conditions. For most of them, incurring the heavy expenses of marriage ceremonies would have only aggravated the financial problems.
"I feel lucky to have got married at the ceremony along with MLA Rana," said Sachin Meshram, a RTO employee here, who married Reema Fulzele of Nagpur. "We could not afford to spend on a separate marriage ceremony," said Sachin.
Among those who entered wedlock at the venue on Wednesday were 2,443 Hindu couples, 739 Buddhists, 150 Muslims, 15 Christians, 252 couples from scheduled caste and nomadic tribes, and 13 blind or handicapped couples.
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