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Amid the growing instances of social media influencers shooting videos and reels in Kedarnath Dham premises, the Badrinath Kedarnath Temple Committee (BKTC) has now written to senior police officers to "take strict action against such persons," adding that they are planning to "set up a cloak room, where the mobile handsets of devotees can be deposited in order to curb these practices in future," TOI reported...
This comes days after a video of a YouTuber purportedly proposing to her boyfriend inside the temple premises went viral on social media and enraged netizens..
Moreover, the BKTC executive officer, Ramesh Chandra Tiwari, said: "It has come to our notice that some social media influencers are shooting videos at Kedarnath that are religiously objectionable and have hurt the feelings of devotees..
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