TS water, soil for Amaravati

After division of Andhra Pradesh, the Telangana’s sacredness is being attached to AP’s capital city Amaravati.

The sacred Godavari river water and soil collected from Basar, temple town of knowledge goddess Saraswati, will be mixed with the water and soil collected from various sacred places within the Andhra Pradesh and is to be used in foundation stone laying ceremony to capital city Amaravati on October 22.

Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu personally received Godavari water and soil collected from Basar area from the local TDP leaders.

The Minister also performed puja at Saraswati temple and initiated Akshrabhysam to his granddaughter on the occasion of auspicious day Mula Nakshtram. Devotees consider the mula nakshtram as birth day of goddess Saraswati.

It is learnt that, TD asked their Telangana leaders to contribute sacred water collected from local rivers and soil from sacred places like temples and historical fort Kakatiya and other religious places.

Andhra Pradesh government is collecting river water and soil from various sacred places like temples and forts in the Telangana and mixing them with the with the same collected from various places within the Andhra Pradesh and has  sprinkled around the place selected for capital city Amaravati as part of foundation stone laying ceremony.

Gamblers flock Maha clubs

With the government forcing the closure of clubs which were popular for gambling-three cards and Rummy- in and around the Hyderabad, large numbers of enthusiastic people including women interested in gambling are coming to a club set at Nayegoan village in Dharmabad taluq in Maharashtra. 

A number of cars including luxury vehicles, head for the village which is located just half a kilometre from temple town Basar in Adilabad of Telangana.

People from well-to-do families from Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Adilabad, Medak and Rangareddy and Hyderabad go to the club for a game or two. 

It is said that even people from Mahrashtra head for the club. It is said that club offers luxury facilities, and new customers are joining in with word of mouth publicity incidentally, some of the people who go to the club to gamble also visit the Saraswati temple at Basar. It is said that Telugu businessmen set up the club on benami names in Maharashtra.  

Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao had taken serious note of the death of a person felling down from a top of the club in the Hyderabad and closed all ambling clubs. It is said that token value of Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 each are being sold for the gamblers.

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