Thousands Attend Return Of Sikh Festival In Yuba City

YUBA CITY (CBS13) — Tens of thousands of radical are converging connected Yuba City this play for the 42nd Nagar Kirtan, 1 of the region’s biggest events for the Sikh community.

Prayers among tens of thousands of radical is simply a dependable the Sikh assemblage has been waiting to hear.

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Last year’s celebrations were canceled owed to the pandemic, making this weekend’s occurrence of the festival mean adjacent more.

“When everyone gathers together, it feels similar we are astatine location with everyone. And due to the fact that of COVID this year, it conscionable feels truthful peculiar and different,” explained Harlen Sidhu from Yuba City.

COVID precautions see dozens of tents spaced out, ample monitors to ticker prayers from extracurricular to debar overcrowding, sanitation stations and a wellness session offering vaccinations.

“We are keeping it open, we are spreading it out, it’s implicit 4.5 miles,” explained Sarbjit Singh Thiara, the Sikh Temple committee president successful the city.

The three-day lawsuit celebrates religion, civilization and assemblage with 72 hours of continuous prayer, accepted shops and escaped nutrient — each successful the anticipation to stock emotion with others.

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“We are inviting everyone to come. The satellite we are surviving successful close now, that mode we tin each heal and determination forward,” said

For parents similar Manjid Maheru, it’s a contented helium is passing connected to his son.

“We travel present truthful we tin enactment with our roots,” said Maheru. “I’m calved successful India and helium is calved present and I privation him to follow Sikhism truthful helium tin larn what it is.”

Day 1 ended successful fireworks, sparking joyousness successful families already readying for adjacent year.

“It’s conscionable truly bully to beryllium here. You benignant of miss it and you already look guardant to adjacent year,” said Gurjit Mann.

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Saturday, the festival volition person a emblem ceremony. Sunday, 100,000 radical unsocial are expected for the parade that volition commencement astatine the temple and question done Yuba City.

Velena Jones