Hyderabad is getting ready for the monthlong Bonau festivities starting from Gokonda. Golkonda is all decked up for the traditional Ammavari pooja and Potharajula jathara apart from Ghatam, Bonam and other rituals.
The State Government has allocated funds for the festival which would be cone for a month across the city in various temples on every Sunday.
Minister TalasaniSrinivas Yadav is overseeing the arrangements under the leadership of Home Minister Mahmood Ali.
Many of the temples are spruced up painted and decorated for the event. This is a festival where goats are sacrificed for the Maatha with Bonam and toddy liquor.
The festival starts in the Old city and comes to Lashkar that is Secunderabad. Minister Talasan Srinivas Yadav will personally dance for the Ghatam procession here for the Lashkar Bonalu. Here they pray to the Ammavaru to see that there are no diseases in the state, there will be good rains and people get enough rain for the crops.
After the day of Bonalu, the next day is treated as Rangam where Ammvaru gives the future prediction for the state. The processions are taken up with colourful dattis and thotellas. Band Baja with theen maar follows them. The ladies with Bonam and the pothrajus dance to the tune of Theen maar on the streets up to the Temple. All the maatha temples in the city are getting a face lift and painting for the festivities.
