Australia Telangana Forum celebrates Telangana Formation Day with multicultural nite

HYDERABAD: The Australian Telangana Forum (ATF) organised a multicultural nite on June 4 in connection with the Telangana state formation day celebrations on June 2.
The event which was organised at Bowman Hall in Blacktown, NSW was attended by Dr Geoffrey Lee, minister for corrections, member for Granville and Shadow minister for sport, and shadow minister for youth, Julia Dorothy FINN MP, Sanjay Kumar Muluka Consul, Consulate General of India, Sydney and Jodi Leyanne McKay former Australian leader of the Opposition in the parliament of New South Wales.
ATF President Prashanth Kumar Kadaparthi said the ATS was established in 2006 with a vision to ‘Connect the Telangana Community to promote Culture, and Commerce'.
Mayor of Blacktown Council Tony Bleasdale sent his warm greetings and wishes to the ATF Team. The event was also attended by local councillors Usha Dommaraju from Camden, Srini Pillalamarri from Hornsby, Sandhya Reddy from Strathfield, Suman Saha from Cumberland and Moninder Singh Susai Benjamin & Livingston Chettipally from Blacktown and other local community leaders. Livingston Chettipally representing the Blacktown Council Mayor said the ATF community was retaining its culture and traditions while simultaneously assimilating into the society in Australia.
Geoffrey Lee won the appreciation of the 1,200 audiences for his introductory remarks in Hindi. Julia Finn appreciated Telangana culture and tradition.
Jodi Mackay recalled that she had visited Hyderabad and said the spirit that she saw in Telangana during her visit was the same as it is there in Australia as the community holds itself together through its various programmes.
Consul, Consulate General of India, Sydney, Sanjay Muluka who hails from Telangana described the multicultural fest as a ‘jatara’ like it is organised in Telangana. He appreciated that ATF was hosting the festival when India was celebrating its Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav.
Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan sent her wishes to the Telangana Australia Forum celebrating the formation of Telangana.
“Telangana is a word to some but to many, the name is a celebration. The state was born after a huge struggle where everyone maintained their unity with an unprecedented belief in victory. When it comes to music and dance, there is a diverse variation in Telangana culture and tradition, and a region for vast multiculturalism, tradition, and its uniqueness,” the governor said in her message to the people of Telangana settled in Australia.