India, Nov. 24 -- Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday participated in a five-day religious and social event organised at Jeevandeep Ashram in Roorkee, where he inaugurated new facilities and announced that a key road junction in the city would be renamed Shaheed Chowk.

Addressing saints, religious leaders and devotees at the ashram, Dhami said that institutions led by the saint community function as "living pilgrimages" that guide society towards what he described as the right path. He paid tributes to the late Padma Bhushan awardee Swami Satyamitranand Giri and offered respects to Jagadguru Mahamandaleshwar Swami Yatindranand Giri and other seers present on the occasion.

The chief minister said the five-day event...