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<\/p>\nJampanna vaagu at the Sammakka Saralamma Jathara is Jampacked. More than a lakh of people have turned up for the first day of Jathara. The pilgrims are taking a religious holy dip at the Jampanna Vagu here before going to Gadde for the Puja here.<\/p>\n
Some pilgrims are shaving their heads, while some others are offering jaggery with their weight.<\/p>\n
The pilgrims are on the rise and also the income of the Jathara. The state government has declared it as a state festival and the MPs have demanded that it must be considered as a National festival.<\/p>\n
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Banda Prakash making a point in the parliament described it as the Kumbh Mela of the south and suggested that it must be recognised as the national festival.<\/p>\n
The police and the forest department are taking care of the security as the festival continues in the forest area for 4 days in a row. They are seeing that there will be no open animal sacrifices here apart from the sale of illicit liquor.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the festival is being celebrated free of plastic covers. Jute covers are being used to carry the vegetables, coconut and pooja items so on and so forth.<\/p>\n
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The Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and the TRS working President K Taraka Rama Rao are expected to make a visit to the Jathara in one of the 4 days.<\/p>\n
The Ministers and the Chief Secretary have already visited and reviewed the Jathara arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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