Overview

• Demonstrators mobilized by the Bijli Mahadev Ropeway Sangharsh Samiti marched from Ramshila to Dhalpur in Kullu before taking their protest to Seri Ground in Mandi.
• A memorandum demanding project cancellation was handed to the Deputy Commissioner, who confirmed it will be forwarded to Prime Minister Modi and Union Minister Gadkari.
• For the first time during the auspicious month of Shravan, the Bijli Mahadev Shiv Temple remained closed to devotees and offered darshan only from outside.
• Locals pointed to visible cracks in the Kharahal valley hills and invoked the deity’s orders to warn that the 2.4 km cable corridor would undermine both hill stability and spiritual sanctity.
• Despite heightened security and market closures near protest sites, authorities are moving ahead with construction under the Union government’s Parvatmala Yojana.