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MULUGU
In accordance with tribal traditions, the deities Pagididda Raju and Govinda Raju person been installed connected recently constructed Gadde (sacred platforms) astatine the Medaram Sammakka-Sarakka shrine connected Wednesday. Koya priests (known arsenic Vaddes) reinstalled Govinda Raju first, followed by Pagididda Raju, astatine a ceremonial successful the greeting successful the beingness of tribals chiefly from the clans of Govinda Raju and Pagididda Raju, accompanied by drumbeats and accepted dances.
The ceremonial was attended by section MLA and Panchayat Ran and Rural Development Minister Danasari Anasuya (Seethakka), District Collector TS Divakara, SP Sudhir R Kekan, and different officials. Tight information arrangements were made to forestall devotees from entering the gadde premises during the installation. Priests of Sammakka-Sarakka (Saralamma), Pagiddidda Raju, and Govinda Raju, on with their families, performed accepted pujas.
Speaking connected the occasion, Minister Seethakka said, “The tribal mode of beingness and the past of Sammakka-Saralamma are etched successful stones utilized to conception the platforms and the compound of the shrine. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is undertaking these improvement works similar a ineffable yagna. Some radical are criticising and insulting our traditions, which is wrong.”
Minister Seethakka, who besides belongs to Koya community, during the ceremonial astatine Medaram shrine connected Wednesday.
Minister Seethakka said that during the renovation work, respective meetings were held with the tribal priests and the opinions of the elders were taken and the priests were convinced.
She expressed the sentiment that since the wood deities are successful the aforesaid line, it volition beryllium casual for the devotees to person darshan. She said that the tribals had a large enslaved with Bandaru (turmeric powder), adding that the presiding deity Sammakka belonged to Bandari clan.
