Endowment Minister presents silk clothes to Rajarajeshwara Swamy in Vemulawada

Endowment Minister A Indrakaran Reddy presented silk cloths to Lord Shiva on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri in the morning on behalf of the State government.

Rajanna-Sircilla: The Sri Rajarajeshwara Swamy temple at Vemulawada reverberated with chants of ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ on the occasion of Maha Shivarathri jatara held on Saturday.
Apart from thousands of devotees from Telangana, several more from Maharastra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh visited the temple, popular as Dakshin Kashi.

Endowment Minister A Indrakaran Reddy presented silk cloths to Lord Shiva on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri in the morning on behalf of the State government. Zilla Parishad Chairperson Nyalakonda Aruna, Vemulawada municipal Chairperson Ramathirthapu Madhavi, Collector Anurag Jayanthi, SP Akhil Mahajan and others also particiapted in the programme.
Earlier, TTD deputy executive officer Harinath presented silk cloths to Sri Rajarajeshwara Swamy continuing the age-old tradition.

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The Tourism Department’s move to arrange a helicopter ride was a special attraction on the day, with Local MLA Ch Ramesh Babu inaugurating the helicopter services. The charges were Rs.5,000 per person for five minutes and Rs.7,000 for seven minutes.

BJP State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar and others too had darshan and performed special poojas in the shrine.