Devotees celebrated the Ganesh Chavithi festival with religious fervour and gaiety across south coastal Andhra Pradesh on the auspicious Chaturthi Tithi of Shukla Paksha in Bhadrabada month on Monday.
In Nellore, Vikrama Simhapuri Ganesh Utsava Samiti installed a majestic idol of Lord Lambodara in keeping with the tradition popularised by Chatrapati Shivaji and later by Bal Gangadhar Tilak during the Freedom Struggle for a gala celebration at the Shivaji centre. A large number of idols, financed by the samiti, were put in different parts of the city, said Samiti president P. Satya Nageswara Rao. “We are making all arrangements for a grand Shobayatra this time,” added festival committee executive president Vellore Mahesh while briefing newsmen on the festivities, which will go on till September 28 marking ‘Ananda Chaturdasi‘.
