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By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: Bountiful rains and a bright future are in store for Telangana, as predicted by the oracle Matangi Swarnalatha at the Rangam programme on Monday, a ritual performed as part of the Bonalu festival. When the temple priest asked her about the poor rains in the State after more than half the year has lapsed, she replied that there will be abundant rains and good inflows into the projects. But the oracle said that there would be good rains this year and farmers should not be dejected. Thousands of devotees, mostly women, made a beeline outside the Ujjaini Mahankali temple in Secunderabad and offered prayers to Goddess Mahankali as the Lashkar Bonalu concluded here on Monday. After the Rangam predictions were completed, the idols of Goddess Mahankali were taken out in a procession..