Spruce up graveyards for Dasera, Diwali: BJP

Bharatiya Janata Party Floor Leader in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Bangari Prakash on Monday demanded immediate repairs to the various graveyards of the Hindu community in view of the Dasera and Deepawali festivals.

Submitting a memorandum to GHMC Commissioner Sameer Sharma, Mr Prakash said that patch works, minor repairs, sanitation, water facilities and lighting arrangements with serial bulbs at all the grave yards in Hyderabad and Secunderabad areas should be take up on the eve of Disarray and Deepawali festivals.

He requested that these works should be completed within a couple of days so that the community members can visit these graveyards to offer prayers for their departed ancestors during the festival days.

Mr Prakash said that minor repairs at all the grave yards, neatness and sanitation works (clean and green works), flooring works wherever necessary, water facilities in all the grave yards, lighting and serial bulbs arrangements and cutting of bushes and small plants were needed.

Reminding that the ongoing Bathukamma Festival was being observed, the BJP leader said that lack of lighting arrangements and neatness at the places will hinder the community members from carrying out their religious rituals freely.

He also demanded that places for Bathukamma immersion like Musi River, small Juntas and ponds, well and other areas should be made more accessible.