Big Deepavali Event in London Year 2024-Part 1

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 Big Deepavali Event in London Year 2024-Part 1

London Mayor Sadiq Khan

Annual Diwali event on behalf of the Greater London Authority lead by London Mayor Sadiq Khan was held on Sunday 27^th October 2024 at the Trafalgar Square in London. This year BSNL (Brahmin Society of NorthLondon ) took the leader role and made the function a grand success. Thousands and thousands attended it from 1 pm to 7 pm.

Many years ago, I attended the event and then decided not to go, because the Sikhs took the leader role and made it a dirty event with Bollywood dances and Non Veggy items. The smell was horrible. This year (2024),  it was a completely different event with real Hindu Diwali items.

There were Yoga Stall, Bhajan Stall, Dance Stall, Hinduism stall etc. 10 to 15 street food stalls were there with long Queues in front of them.

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Highlights of the event:

sadiq Khan garlanding Ganesh Idol

All organisations such as Jain, Hindu and Sikh organisations were given time slots to greet the people. Hare Krishna (ISKCON), Brahma Kumaris, Nepali Hindus also spoke.

Wonder of Wonders,  Pakistani origin London Mayor Sadiq Khan garlanded Ganesh statue along with others and lit the Diwali lamps with others. All the people appreciated his gesture and thanked the  mayor team for full support.

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About the Cultural Events

Dance after dance was performed by various teams. One team came all the way from Cambridge. The function began with Drums.in between Bollywood songs, divine music was also heard. Indian High Commission was represented by Deputy H C Mr Gosh. I stayed there for three hours and covered 40 percent of the events. South Indians also did participate in the dance events.

In between the cultural items, Professor Steven  who did good research on autism, explained the causes and requested full support for people with autism. No bad activity of parents cause autism, and it is one of the genetic things. People with autism got Ph.D.s and we see famous doctors and lawyers, accountants who has autism. Though he took five minutes he gave an informative report. One Ms. Geetha came with an autism boy.

The good thing is all the staged items were brief and did not take more than ten minutes. People from different walks of life and foreign tourists who frequent Trafalgar Square also joined the crowd.

Above all, London weather blessed the event with full sunlight which is very rare. A lot of volunteers maintained the crowd efficiently.

Hope every year we get such an event with good quality and standards.

Happy Diwali to our Readers.

Diwali is on 31^st October 2024. But Gujarati Hindus celebrate it for four days and one of the days is New Year day for them.

So Happy New Year as well.

I have seen my accountant friends do Computer Puja on that day because all the accounting work is done by computer software!

I took 100 ++++ pictures. I will post them batch by batch.

–subham—

Tags- London Diwali, Year 2024, Trafalgar Square, Mayor Sadiq Khan, BSNL, Dance events,part one