Allahabad :

The glitzy ‘Dadhijkando’ fair, first in the series of six held on every weekend, started with the display of best of Indian culture and tradition by around two dozens socio-religious tableaux at Salori here on Saturday.

The fair, traditionally organised from the sixth day of Janmashtami, were started with tableaux based on the several episodes from the life of Lord Krishna.

The first in the series was Lord Krishna and Baldau sitting atop an elephant followed by tableau procession which started late in the evening and was continued till going into press.

The procession after passing through Chandpur-Salori, Teliarganj, Rasoolabad was scheduled to conclude at the same place. The localities through which tableaux passed were decked up with colourful lighting patterns and cut-out of Lord Krishna.

Earlier, the procession started with president of Salori Mela Committee Brahma Prakash along with local leaders and administrative officials offering worship at Salori temple.

As per the tradition of depicting socio-economic state of affairs along with that depicting life sketch of Lord Krishna, tableaux on ‘corruption’ were also taken out. Similarly, tableaux ‘Kraishna-Baldau’, ‘Kalia-Mardan’, ‘Raas-leela’ were highly appreciated by visitors. The decked up tableaux were also given cash prize and shield by the organizing committee on the basis of the lightings and topic selected.

On Sunday, Sulemsarai would host the Dadhikando fair. The sixth-day ‘Shasti’ celebrations was also held at Kunj Bihari Lal Agarwal Athithi Bhawan where tableaux depicting the Lord Krishna and devotional programmes were held.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Allahabad / TNN / August 24th, 2014