LUCKNOW, March 2 -- Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak on Saturday said the recently concluded Prayagraj Mahakumbh taught us to eradicate discrimination as people from different sections of the society took the holy dip together at the mega fair.

"Not a single case of skin disease was found after the Mahakumbh bath. The flow and purity of Ganga remained intact with support from the sanitation workers and administrators who were engaged in the arrangements for providing the facility," said Pathak who is also state's health minister.

"During the Mahakumbh, we also saw a daughter-in-law carrying her 90-year-old mother-in-law on her shoulders so that she could take a holy dip. This is the richness of Indian culture. Such ins...