{"id":43294,"date":"2017-03-02T00:55:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=43294"},"modified":"2017-03-02T00:55:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:25:27","slug":"50000-devotees-throng-kaleshwaram-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=43294","title":{"rendered":"50,000 devotees throng Kaleshwaram temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<strong>Jayashankar Bhupalpally:\u00a0<\/strong>Devotees in large numbers thronged the Kaleshwaram-Muktheeshwara temple located on the banks Godavari river in Mahadevpur mandal in the district on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri on Friday.<br \/>\nWith the recent inauguration of the Sironcha-Kaleshwaram bridge and Mullakkata bridge near Etunagaram built across the Godavari river,\u00a0 the number of devotees coming from neighbouring Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh swelled more than expected, according to officials.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, a temporary bride built between Palugula and Mahadevpur on the Godavari also helped the devotees from Mancherial, Asifabad and Adilabad to cut short the route and arrive at the temple easily.<br \/>\n\u201cWe expected only about 25,000 to 30,000 devotees, but nearly 50,000 people are estimated to have visited the temple on Friday,\u201d said an official admitting that they had indeed failed to make proper arrangements. As the officials have not set up makeshift dress-changing rooms, the women devotees faced problems after taking a dip in the Godavari river.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, some devotees, who subscribed for the \u2018Shaswatah Kalyanam\u2019 scheme, entered into a verbal duel with the temple Executive Officer (EO) B Srinivas for not allowing them to sit near the platform during the \u2018Shiva Kalyanam\u2019.<br \/>\n\u201cThe temple authorities allowed the VIPs and other politicians to sit at the platform while we, who paid Rs 5,000 under the Kalyanam scheme, are not allowed,\u201d lamented a devotee. Devotees also faced problems due to the non-availability of drinking water.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Shaivite temples in the erstwhile Warangal district including Thousand Pillar temple, Hanamkonda, Mallikarjun Swamy temple in Inavole, Mallikarjun Swamy temple, Komuaravelli, Veerabhadra Swamy temple, Kuravi and Sri Someshwara Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy, Palakurthy were abuzz with devotees in large numbers.<br \/>\nMany devotees also turned up for Rudreshwara Swamy\u2019s \u2018Kalyana Mahotsavam\u2019 held on Friday evening.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayashankar Bhupalpally:\u00a0Devotees in large numbers thronged the Kaleshwaram-Muktheeshwara temple located on the banks Godavari river in Mahadevpur mandal in the district on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri on Friday. With the recent inauguration of the Sironcha-Kaleshwaram bridge and Mullakkata bridge near Etunagaram built across the Godavari river,\u00a0 the number of devotees coming from neighbouring Maharashtra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}