Ex-CM Trivendra Singh Rawat stopped at Kedarnath, days ahead of PM Modi's visit

With the state government yet to take a stand on the Devasthanam Management Board Act — which gives power to bureaucrats to manage temples in the hill state, including the four Char Dham shrines — priests at Kedarnath on Monday denied entry to former chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat under whose tenure the Act was passed in 2019.