The Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samithi has decided to hold the idol immersion on the 9th of this month.
The general secretary of the organization Bhagvanth Rao said that the immersion would be held on Friday keeping in view the Anantha Chathurdasi.
He alleged that some police officers were publicizing that there would be no idol immersion on the 9th, and that some other people were propogating that on their social media accounts including Whatsapp, and refuted the rumours.
Referring to the statements of the State government that it would build ponds for the immersion progam to avoid immersion in the Hussain Sagar, he said that the Samithi was not aware of the number of ponds set up by the government. He also alleged that the authorities of the State government were not allowing the devotees to visit the ponds, and that the authorities were dumping the idols in garbage. He urged the State government to take steps to avoid such hurtful acts, and to make arrangements for the peaceful immersion of the idols.
Claiming that the police were mounting pressure on Ganesh pandal organisers, including the Balapur Ganesh organisers, to immerse their idols in ponds, he asked the police to stop such pressure tactics. He asked the State government to act in the same manner as the Tamil Nadu government, which had disregarded no less than the Supreme Court's orders on the issue of Jallikattu. He said that the Samithi would hold a rally on Tuesday demanding that the state government allow them to immerse the idols in Hussain Sagar.
Targeting CM K Chandrashekar Rao, he alleged that the CM was adopting an anti-Hindu stand in the issue of the immersion of the Ganesh idols. He warned the state government that they would hold protest programs by continuing to keep the idols in the pandals if it failed to make proper arrangements for their immersion.