Hyderabad sources have stated that prominent feature of the famous Khairatabad Ganesh is the massive laddu prasadam which will be missing this year. Meanwhile according to the organizers, ‘Sri Khairatabad Ganesh Utsav Committee’, it was decided not to place the massive laddu this year. They stated that there was a stampede when distributing the laddu on the final day of the festival, last year.
Sources have stated that police had to intervene and bring the crowd under control on that occasion. Usually the huge Ganesh idol used to get a jumbo laddu from Tapeswaram in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. The Khairatabad jumbo laddu has its significance on the similar lines of Balapur laddu with thousands of devotees gathering every year to have 'laddu prasadam', which is distributed by the Ganesh Utsav Committee, Khairatabad amid tight police security on the immersion day.
Earlier in 2015, a jumbo laddu weighing around 6,000 kg was brought for
the Khairatabad Ganesh. However, the organizers had a tough time controlling
the swelling crowd and finally the laddu was looted. Furthermore prominent
politicians, celebrities and people from all walks of life queued at
Khairatabad since the early hours of Friday to have a darshan of the massive
Ganesh idol.
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