Lucknow, Mar 2: Festival of colour, Holi, is being celebrated in Uttar Pradesh with traditional fevor and gaiety.
Children and elders sprayed colour and gulal on each other and later offered sweets and special prepared gujiyas and papar. With wishing 'Happy Holi' people embraced each other to convey their best wishes.
"The festival is being celebrated in a peaceful manner and there is no incident of any untoward incident from anywhere," said Director General of Police O P Singh here on Friday.
As Holi is being celebrated on Friday, Muslim clerics have rescheduled their Friday Namaz after 1300 hours from their schedule after 1200 hrs in almost all the mosques in the state. 
UP governor Ram Naik and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have wished the people of the state on the festival. Mr Naik met the families of his staff at the Rajbhawan and exchanged greetings.
CM Yogi is in Gorakhpur for the past two days and worshipped at the Gorakhnath temple this morning and exchanged greetings with the people.
In Lucknow, a special Holi procession was brought out in the old Chowk area where politicians and others joined to celebrate the festival.
The celebration of the festival started last evening with Holika dahan and people started playing holi. UNI
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