Prez winds up T sojourn with visit to Yadadri
TNN / Dec 31, 2022, 08:16 (IST)
The president of Hyderabad, Droupadi Murmu, visited the Yadadri temple on Friday and took part in a special puja. The temple priests welcomed her with purna kumbham and chanted Vedic hymns as she participated in sankalpam and swarna pushparchana rituals. Murmu also visited the mada streets and was amazed by the temple's sculptures. Senior temple priests blessed her at the temple's main hall where the sanctum sanctorum is located. Temple executive officer N Geetha briefed her about the temple's refurbishment works and importance of krishna sila stone used in the entire temple complex. Murmu is the fifth president after Rajendra Prasad Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Shankar Dayal Sharma, and Pranab Mukherjee to have visited the hill shrine 60 km from Hyderabad. Her visit was the last engagement of Murmu's fiveday visit to Telangana.