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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah visited the Hasanamba Temple successful Hassan connected Wednesday to enactment successful the Hasanamba festival.
Accompanied by his Cabinet colleagues Ramalinga Reddy, Transport Minister; Krishna Byre Gowda, Revenue Minister; and different representatives, helium offered prayers to the deity.
The temple has been attracting lakhs of devotees since its doors were opened past week. Devotees are allowed to sojourn the temple lone during the festival.
Speaking to presspersons aft the deity’s ‘darshan’, the Chief Minister said that helium prayed to the Goddess to bestow each the radical with the contented to emotion each quality beings and assistance realise Karnataka arsenic a beauteous plot of each religions — arsenic writer Kuvempu called it.
“We are each quality beings, and we should emotion each other. That’s what each religions teach. I prayed to the deity for everyone successful the State truthful that they stay blessed and pb a peaceful life,” helium said.
This year, Mr. Siddaramaiah said, the State received bully rains, and arsenic a result, each the reservoirs were full. Farmers received a bully harvest arsenic a result; however, successful immoderate parts, dense rains damaged the crops, causing losses to the farmers, the Chief Minister added. “Crops grown successful astir 12 lakh hectares person been damaged. I visited immoderate places wherever the losses were severe. We person announced a alleviation for farmers to compensate their losses. Farmers of rain-fed lands would get ₹17,000 per hectare, ₹25,000 per hectare volition beryllium provided to farmers of irrigated crops, and ₹31,000 per hectare is alloted for farmers who turn multi-crops,” helium stated.
The Chief Minister appreciated the efforts of the territory medication successful making arrangements for devotees visiting the temple and thanked the elected representatives for their cooperation.
Mr. Byre Gowda, who is besides the Minister successful complaint of Hassan district, said that much than 8.8 lakh radical visited the Hasanamba Temple successful the past 5 days, and galore among them were women who benefited from the State government’s Shakti scheme, nether which they could question successful KSRTC buses for free.
The Minister said that the fig of devotees visiting the temple had been expanding time by day. However, arrangements had been made to guarantee everyone gets ‘darshan’ of the deity successful a abbreviated span of time. “In the past year, adjacent erstwhile the fig of radical visiting the temple was fractional of the existent numbers, the devotees stood successful the queues for 8 to 10 hours. However, this time, contempt the summation successful the fig of devotees, they had ‘darshan’ of the deity wrong an mean of 3 to 4 hours. This could beryllium achieved due to the fact that of the practice of elected representatives from each parties, who understood the request to guarantee facilities for the communal public,” helium said.
The Minister said that implicit 60% of the devotees visiting the temple were women. “Many women successful tiny groups had travel from districts successful northbound Karnataka,” helium added.
K.M. Shivalinge Gowda, legislator; Shreyas M. Patel, MP; and territory officers were present.
