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Annual monsoon cultural event concludes in Yadgir
A three-day annual cultural event organised every year during the onset of the monsoon, Mungaru Samskritika Raichuru Habba, concluded on Thursday.
The event organised by Munnur Kapu Samaj was celebrated for the 25th year this time with seers of various mutts, Ministers, parliamentarians, political leaders, elected representatives and the public from various parts of the district and also the States of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra participating in it.
Raichur MP G. Kumar Naik, who inaugurated events on the third and final day, said that Mungaru Samskritika Raichuru Habba has entered its 25th year. The traditional and cultural celebrations are meant to encourage the farming communities, he added.
A competition for bullocks pulling stone boulders with different weights is the prime cultural programme and farmers who brought their bullocks for the event thoroughly enjoyed it, he said.
A pair of bullocks belonging to Konduru Rambhupalreddy, a native of Nandyal district, bagged the first prize of ₹1 lakh in cash. The second prize of ₹75,000 in cash went to the bullocks of Subbareddy, also a native of Nandyal, and the third prize of ₹65,000 in cash went to the bullocks of Tota Pratap Reddy, a native of Anantpur.
Choukimutt seer Siddalinga Swamiji, A. Papareddy, Bellam Narasareddy, B.V. Naik and others were present.
