Worship of Ravana, the villagers here consider him as their favorite deity

While the festival of Dussehra is celebrated across the country with the burning of Ravana as a symbol of the victory of good over evil, Ravana is considered worshipable in Bhatkhedi village of Rajgarh district of Madhya Pradesh and instead of burning the effigy of Ravana, people worship Ravana here. The villagers here have been worshipping Ravana for about 100 years. The villagers claim that Ravana fulfills their wishes. The villagers told that whenever any calamity comes in the village, they make wishes to Ravana and Ravana removes those calamities. chhattisgarh news

Actually, when we talked to the villagers about the worship of Ravana in this village Bhatkhedi of Rajgarh district, the villagers told that this tradition has been going on from generation to generation in their village for about 100 years. Where on Dussehra, instead of burning the effigy of Ravana, Ravana is worshipped and this is done because their ancestors also used to do the same. chhattisgarh

Some villagers said that Ravana was a block Pandit and when Lord Ram had to worship Lord Rameshwaram before building Ram Setu from Rameshwaram to Lanka. So according to the scriptures, he also called Ravana as a Brahmin for worship and Ravana was a learned Pandit there, who knew the scriptures, that is why the people of this village Bhatkhedi worship Ravana.