Like the Bathukamma festival, Bonalu is also popular across the country. Bonalu starts from the Historic Golkonda fort. Even Nizam of Hyderabad also celebrated the Bonalu festival.
Last year the Bonalu Jatara was not done in a big way due to Corona. Even this year the festival and Jatara are done with Covid rules and regulations.
The Bonalu festival is also done in Delhi at the Telangana Bhavan. Kishan Reddy the Union Minister for Tourism and Culture has participated in Bonalu Festival here and assured that the festival will get the National Status soon.
Bathukamma has become very popular across the world with the help of K Kavithat the MLC and the daughter of K Chandrasekhar Rao the CM of Telangana.
Bathukamma gets the grant from Telangana Government on yearly basis. It would be good if the Central Government can also give some grant for the Bonalu festival here in Telangana.
The Telangana Government has also given funds for Bonalu and Minister for Animal Husbandry Talasani Srinivas Yadav is supervising the arrangements here in Hyderabad.
The Jatara at Golkonda, Lal Darwaja, Lower Tankbund and Secunderabad Mahankali are very popular in the city of Hyderabad.
