People
carry Ganesh idols for immersion. | File/PTI
HYDERABAD: Bhagyanagar Ganesh
Utsav Samithi (BGUS) has decided not to follow the norms prescribed the city
police for getting permission for erecting Ganesh pandals.
BGUS general secretary Bhagwanth
Rao, after attending a review meeting with home minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy
at the Secretariat here on Tuesday, told reporters that the police put several
conditions including obtaining affidavit from the organisers of pandals.
“Even before purchasing a Ganesh
idol, the police wanted to know in the prescribed format in which vehicle the
idol will be transported, the registration number of the vehicle and
details of the vehicle’s owner and driver,” he said Bhagwanth Rao said the
police wanted the organisers to furnish information in the form whether they
had obtained permission from the landowner to erect the pandal. “If an idol is
installed on a public road, who has to give the permission?” he asked.
When he raised the matter in the
meeting, the minister said it was a public land. “If the public use it for a
public function, there is no need for permission,” the BGUS general secretary
said.
Nayani Narasimha Reddy told
reporters later that all arrangements were in place for the Ganesh Chaturth and
the festival would start on September 17.
BHAGWANTH OBSTRUCTED
When the BGUS leaders arrived at the
Secretariat on invitation from the government, police asked them to go inside
through the visitors entrance and blocked their entry through CM’s entrance.
When BHagwanth Rao and others proceeded towards the visitors entry, police
prevented them. The BGUS representatives left the place and were about
return when some officials apologised to them and asked them to attend the
meeting. But the BGUS leaders insisted that a responsible person from the
government invite them to the meeting. Then excise minister T Padma Rao
accompanied the BGUS representatives to the conference hall in the C-Block
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