Summary:
more-inThe Ganesha immersion procession weaved its way through Charminar area in old city peacefully, with devotees wearing saffron seen proceeding towards Hussainsagar for the final ritual on Sunday. At noon, Ramesh Mudiraj, a tailor from Begum Bazaar, along with his family members, came to Charminar and immersed clay Ganesha idol in a bucket of water. At around 8.30 a.m., small Ganesha idols in various avatars on cars, auto-rickshaws and two-wheelers made their way towards Tank Bund and other immersion points in the old city. In the evening, Home Minister Naini Narshimha Reddy along with DGP M.
Mahender Reddy and other senior officials undertook an aerial survey of the immersion procession in the city. According to him, about 1,200 were immersed in Hussainsagar and other 300-odd idols were taken to Rajanna Bowli and Mir Alam Tank..