Devotees in Surat Offer Digital Aarti During Saraswati Puja

The crowd used mobile phone torches to perform the aarti.

Digital aarti in Surat (Photo: ANI Screengrab)

People in Surat take Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for a Digital India very seriously.

During a recent Saraswati puja, devotees were seen using their lit up mobile phone torches to perform a ‘digital aarti’ of sorts. Watch:

In what is probably a sign of things to come, devotees also refrained from making cash donations, choosing instead to offer money to the deity using e-wallets, cheques and cards.

“We want to do something different and so we are offering prayers and money digitally,” said BJP leader Arun Dubey, who led a reported 50,000 people in the ceremony.

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