Bonalu Ghattam wends peacefully by way of Hyderabads Old City streets

With sturdy safety preparations, deployment of SHE Teams and crime items, and coordination throughout departments, the historic Ghattam procession of Bonalu pageant which started at Akkana Madanna Temple in Haribowli on Monday morning, concluded late on Monday evening.

Hyderabad Police Commissioner C.V. Anand, alongside along with his spouse Lalitha Anand, visited the temple and launched the procession. He thanked the temple administration and organisers and prolonged his finest needs for the graceful conduct of the pageant.

Tracing the wealthy legacy of the temple, Mr.Anand mentioned the Sri Akkana Madanna Temple dated again 350 years. “Pujas had been carried out right here through the Qutb Shahi rule in 1675 for almost a decade. After the demise of Akkanna and Madanna, the rituals got here to a halt. It was solely after Independence that the temple was rebuilt and festivals revived,” he mentioned.

He added that the Bonalu celebrations had been held on a grand scale over the previous month, with lively help from Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and Konda Surekha. “This 12 months’s Bonalu festivities had been unprecedented in scale and participation, because of their involvement,” Mr.Anand mentioned.

On safety, the highest cop mentioned preventive measures had been taken to keep away from stampedes and different untoward incidents. “We ensured seamless coordination between departments in order that devotees usually are not put to any inconvenience. SHE Teams and crime items had been on the bottom to curb eve-teasing, pickpocketing and chain-snatching,” he defined.

The Ghattam procession handed by way of Gowliguda, Lal Darwaza and Shah Ali Banda earlier than culminating at Nayapul.

Senior officers together with Additional CP Vikram Singh Mann, Joint CP Traffic Joel Davis, and DCPs Apoorva Rao, Sneha Mehra, Rakshitha Krishna Murthy and Venkateswarlu had been current on the occasion.