devotees till the 1990s, when it started gaining popularity, today  lakhs  of devotees from surrounding states of  Delhi ,  Uttar Pradesh , Haryana ,  Rajasthan ,  Punjab  and some from as far as  Bihar ,  Jharkhand ,  Chhattisgarh  and  Madhya Pradesh  reach these places to participate in Kanwar Mela, in 2003. 5.5