hyderabad
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has demanded that the Centre accord national festival/event status to biennial Sammakka-Saralamma Jatara at Medaram as it is known as South India’s Kumbh Mela.
Speaking after offering prayers at Medaram on Saturday, BRS MLC K. Kavitha stated that their party had been demanding national festival status to Medaram Jatara from day one of the State formation and the matter was taken to the notice of the Prime Minister and others at the Centre several times by the then Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Ministers and MPs from the State.
