Last flight for haj from Lucknow leaves for Medina

LUCKNOW: The series of haj flights from Amausi airport, Lucknow and Babatpur airport, Varanasi came to end on Friday. The last two flights carrying 580 haj pilgrims left Amausi airport for Medina. Similarly, the last flight carrying 209 pilgrims departed from Varanasi. It may be mentioned that this time the quota of haj pilgrims allotted for UP was 32,397, out of which 25,389 pilgrims were selected through qurra (lottery).
According to an official release, so far haj pilgrims till serial number 10,796 have so far been selected from the wait list. Till the last day on Friday, a total 10,957 haj pilgrims have departed from Lucknow, while 11,859 have left from Delhi. Till date 27,068 haj pilgrims have left UP for Medina.
Meanwhile, secretary, State Haj Committee Abrar Ahmad has informed that since the Haj Committee of India, Mumbai has stopped receiving passports, therefore the haj pilgrims selected for the wait list should not submit their passports in the offices of the haj committee in Mumbai and Lucknow.