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India’s celebrated Sun God temple connected Sunday (January 25, 2026) witnessed an unprecedented unreserved of devotees who came to Arasavilli successful Srikakulam territory to person darshan of the presiding deity Sri Surynarayana Swamy connected the festival time of Ratha Saptami.
There were serpentine queues of devotees for ‘sarva darshan’, summons holders, and donors close from the aboriginal hours of Sunday (January 25). The devotees who waited for darshan from Saturday (January 24, 2026) nighttime had a unspeakable clip with jostling and stampede-like situations.
Fortunately, determination were nary untoward incidents successful spite of the jostling successful the queue lines. Against this backdrop, the constabulary section allowed pilgrims into the queue lines successful a staggered mode to forestall stampedes successful the queue lines.
Collector Swapnil Dinkar Pundkar, Superintendent of Police K.V. Maheswar Reddy, and different officials personally tried to calm down the devotees successful the backdrop of their protests. They complained that they were being disrespected by the constabulary unit successful spite of having valid tickets bought astatine the counters.
Mr. Pundkar requested section radical to person darshan of the Sun God lone successful the day successful presumption of the dense influx of devotees from different areas. He said that each devotee would get an accidental successful spite of the dense rush, arsenic a staggered attack was implemented to guarantee hassle-free darshan with capable information measures.
Mr. Maheswar Reddy said that the ₹500, ₹100 summons holders and donors were besides requested to hold patiently for their crook till the completion of the darshan of the devotees who waited successful the queue lines.
Earlier, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, Minister for Agriculture K. Atchannaidu, and Srikakulam MLA Gondu Shankar offered pattuvastrams successful a accepted mode to the presiding deity astatine astir 12:15 a.m. and participated successful Ksheerabhisekham.
Minister for MSME Kondapalli Srinivas, Minister for Home Vangalapudi Anitha and different VIPs besides had darshan successful the aboriginal hours. Later, the devotees had ‘Nijarupa darshan’ of the presiding deity who is believed to bless the radical with wellness and wealth.
