{"id":14588,"date":"2020-08-13T04:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T04:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14588"},"modified":"2020-08-13T04:32:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T04:32:57","slug":"72-hour-yagna-underway-at-pranab-mukherjees-ancestral-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14588","title":{"rendered":"72-hour yagna underway at Pranab Mukherjee\u2019s ancestral village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prayers for a speedy recovery of former President Pranab Mukherjee<\/a> continued on Wednesday in his hometown Kirnahar in Birbhum district.<\/p>\n

Residents of Kirnahar and Mukherjee\u2019s extended family members started a 72-hour \u2018yagna\u2019 since Janmashtami on Tuesday. The family members also offered prayers in his ancestral village Miriti, a few kilometres from Kirnahar. Mukherjee visits his village every year during Durga Puja.<\/p>\n

He remained critical after undergoing brain surgery at a hospital in New Delhi. He had also tested positive for Covid-19<\/a> before the surgery and is on ventilator support.<\/p>\n

The three-day \u2018yagna\u2019 started in a Shiva temple, around 2 km from the former president\u2019s ancestral house.<\/p>\n

Mukherjee\u2019s family friend Rabi Chattaraj said they were asked by Abhijit Mukherjee, Pranab Mukherjee\u2019s son, to offer prayers. \u201cIn the evening, we also organised a prayer meeting. Tomorrow, we will offer prayers in five famous temples across Birbhum. Today his extended family members also offered prayers here,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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