Source: Aaj Tak Hindi TV Channel
DELHI, INDIA, AUGUST 12, 2001: Over 250,000 devotees waited in long lines to worship at Lakshmi Narayan temple today. There were even devotees still waiting at midnight, but the exhausted priests had to call it a day. The temple’s chief priest, Sri Lakshmi Narayan Shastri, said that the enthusiasm and interest of people in the festival was going up year after year. Kuldip, a young man said that he prayed to God to nab the wrongdoers in the UTI scam. Whereas Kusum Juneja, a housewife prayed to the Lord for the well being and welfare of one and all.