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During his archetypal sojourn to Karnataka aft taking charge, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay visited Kollur Mookambika Temple successful Udupi territory connected Friday and offered a metallic sword to the presiding deity.
According to sources, the sword weighed 1.6 k.g. He offered peculiar pooja astatine the temple successful the afternoon.
The constabulary had beefed up information astatine the temple successful presumption of his visit. The temple wore deserted look owed to information arrangements.
Drives car himself
After visiting the temple, Mr. Vijay drove to the Mookamika impermanent location astatine Kollur.
Sources astatine Mangaluru International Airport said that the Chief Minister drove the car himself portion returning to the airdrome from Kollur. He waved astatine his fans and boarded the peculiar formation to Chennai astatine 6.30 p.m.
Earlier Mr. Vijay arrived astatine the airdrome by a peculiar formation from Delhi astatine astir 1 p.m. Minister for Health and Family Welfare U. T. Khader and officials of Dakshina Kannada territory medication welcomed him astatine the airport. The officials presented him with 2 books astatine the airport. Later helium near for Kollur via Udupi by road.
Black emblem protest
Before Mr. Vijay could scope Udupi, a radical of activists of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (Praveen Kumar Shetty faction) gathered astatine Udyavara connected the National Highway 66 successful Udupi to amusement achromatic emblem to the Chief Minister. The activists were opposing Tamil Nadu taking objection to the projected Mekedatu Irrigation Project. But they were taken into preventive custody by police.
It whitethorn beryllium mentioned present that erstwhile Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu the precocious J. Jayalalitha and M. G. Ramachandran excessively had visited the Kollur temple erstwhile successful power.
