The 10-day annual Koda festival of the Bhagavathy temple in this coastal town began on Sunday morning with the traditional flag-hoisting ( kodiyettu) ceremony in the presence of devotees from Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Temple tantri Edakkode Sankaranarayanan and melshanthi Vignesh Kurukkal began the rituals in the presence of Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and Tami Nadu Information Technology Minister Mano Thankaraj, as devotees chanted ‘Saranam tha devi, saranam tha’.
Mr. Soundararajan also inaugurated the 85th annual Hindu Maha Sammelanam organised by the Haindava Seva Sangham after the kodiyettu ceremony.
