Mathura officials are ignoring Vrindavan Kumbh: Shrikant Sharma to CM

LUCKNOW: Energy minister Shrikant Sharma, who is also an MLA from Mathura, has written a letter to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, drawing his attention towards the apathy of the local administration towards annual Vrindavan Kumbh slated to be held between February 16 and March 28.
Sharma said that last month when he had visited Mathura, he went to the Mela site and found the preparations unsatisfactory.He had cautioned the local administration about the slackness and told the officials to finish the work in time.
But when the minister took a feedback from party workers and organisers of the event recently, he was told that nothing had moved since then and the preparations for the Vrindavan Kumbh were still very slow. “Even a warning by the minister to the district authorities did not make any impact,” said a source close to Sharma.
After his repeated warning to the district magistrate and other authorities failed to wake them up, the minister on Monday wrote a letter to the chief minister drawing his attention towards the Vrindavan Kumbh and the poor response of the district authorities towards his warning in organising the event.
Sources close to him told TOI that the energy minister would personally meet the chief minister soon to make a complaint against Mathura district officials and request him to ask the authorities for speedy action towards organising the mela.
The minister said that thousands of tourists from India and abroad attend this historic festival every year and for their stay in Vrindavan, the district authorities have to coordinate with the mela officials for organsing the event.
The minister in his letter to the CM also requested for coordination between the district authorities and the Vrindavan Development Council.