The festival marking the onset spring season, Basant Panchmi, was celebrated across the country on Monday. <br/><br/>President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the people on the occasion. <br/><br/>On this day people, especially students worship Godess of learning, Saraswati and seek her blessings for wisdom and knowledge. <br/><br/>People wear yellow clothes and eat yellow rice to emulate the yellow mustard flower fields and fly kites.<br/>AIR correspondent reports that bathing festival was held at Magh Mela at Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. <br/><br/>In Punjab, Basant Jor Melas were also held at Dukh Niwaran Gurdwara at Patiala and Gurdwara at Cheherta Sahib near Amritsar. <br/><br/>The Basant Panchmi festival which is celebrated to welcome the change in weather is also associated with Vir Haqiqat Rai, who had sacrificed his life on this day. <br/><br/>Today Vir Haqiqat Rai was also remembered in Punjab and Haryana.<br/><br/>