BHOPAL: In an attempt to stop the continuous rains, giving rise to flood-like conditions in

, members of Om Shiv Seva Shakti Mandal on Wednesday got a

couple divorced two months after the wedding.

Hoping to please the God of rains, Indra, the members of the religious group had got a male and female frog married on July 19 when the state was facing a drought-like situation. But now, as Bhopal has seen excessive rainfall, the highest in about last 13 years, people are desperately in need of some releif from the rains.

Madhya Pradesh had already recorded 26% excess rains till Wednesday and the gates of Bhadbhada, Kaliasot and

dam were opened.

Hoping to bring relief to the people facing

fury in the state, Om Shiv Seva Shakti Mandal performed the divorce of the frog couple.

The divorce was performed at a temple in Indrapuri. A symbolic frog couple was separated with rituals and mantrochharan.