‘Panguni Uthiram’ festival begins with flag hoisting at Palani
The Hindu
‘Panguni Uthiram’ festival at Thiru Avinangudi temple here began with hoisting of temple flag here.
‘Panguni Uthiram’ festival at Thiru Avinangudi temple here began with hoisting of temple flag here.
A special puja was conducted for the flag bearing the pictures of Roost, Peacock and Vel, before it was hoisted.
Then, special abishekam and deeparathana were held for the presiding deities God Muthukumaraswamy, and Goddesses Valli and Deivanai. The deities were taken out on procession later in the night.
During the 10-day festival, the deities would come out on different vahanas. The celestial wedding would be held on April 3. The highlight of the festival, the car-pulling event, would be held on April 4.
Temple Joint Commissioner, Natarajan, Deputy Commissioner, Prakash, trustees, Manimaran, Subramanian, were present.

On December 23, the newly elected office bearers of the Anna Nagar Towers Club, led by its president ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, who is a former MLA, met with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin and conveyed their greetings. According to a press release, besides, ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, the Anna Nagar Towers Club delegation that met Stalin at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK Party headquarters, included vice-president R. Sivakumar, secretary R. Muralibabu, joint secretary D. Manojkumar, treasurer K. Jayachandran and executive committee members N. D. Avinash, K. Kumar, N. R. Madhurakavi, K. Mohan, U. Niranjan, S. Parthasarathi, K. Rajasekar, S. Rajasekar, M. S. Ramesh, R. Satheesh, N. C. Venkatesan and K. Yuvaraj. Karthik Mohan, deputy secretary of DMK’s Information Technology Wing, was present on the occasion.












