Tamil Nadu CM Vijay offers prayers at Durga temple

Vijayawada: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay visited Sri Kanaka Durga temple atop Indrakeeladri in Vijayawada on Tuesday evening and offered special prayers to the presiding deity during the ongoing Dasara Sarannavaratri festivities.

Vijay, accompanied by Andhra Pradesh minister for municipal administration and urban development P Narayana and Nellore MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy, arrived at the Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Varla Devasthanam in traditional attire.

Temple priests accorded him a traditional welcome with Poornakumbham. Vijayawada MP Kesineni Sivanath (Chinni), endowments commissioner K Ramachandra Mohan and temple officials received the Chief Minister and escorted him into the main temple. Before entering the shrine, Vijay greeted devotees waiting in the queue lines with folded hands. He later had darshan of Goddess Kanaka Durga in the sanctum sanctorum and performed special pujas.

After the darshan, Vedic scholars offered blessings to the Chief Minister at the Aniveti Mandapam. endowments secretary K Kannababu, commissioner K Ramachandra Mohan, temple trust board chairman Borra Radhakrishna (Gandhi) and executive officer V K Seena Naik presented him with the Goddess’s sacred robes, prasadam and a portrait of the deity.

Temple trust board members, officials and senior city police officers participated in the programme.

Earlier in the evening, Vijay arrived at Vijayawada International Airport at Gannavaram on a special flight, accompanied by Tamil Nadu minister for PWD and sports development Adhav Arjuna and others. On behalf of the state government, Minister P Narayana and other officials accorded a welcome to CM Vijay.

After coming out of the airport, Vijay greeted his fans who had gathered to welcome him. He later travelled by road to the Kanaka Durga temple, with a large number of fans following his convoy, prompting police personnel to intervene and regulate the crowd.

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