Police kick-start Sankranti festival for youth, women
The Hindu
It is to divert the youth from cockfights
The East Godavari police on Wednesday kick-started the district-level Sankranthi festival to encourage rural sports and divert the rural folk from illegal entertainment sources, including cockfights and gambling.
East Godavari SP M. Raveendranath Babu and Pithapuram MLA Pendem Dorababu inaugurated the festival here. The police are conducting the festival in all the divisional headquarters with exclusive sports for men and women in the rural pockets.
Addressing the gathering here, Mr. Babu said the method of celebrating Sankranthi had been diverted with the dominant illegal entertainment ways, including cockfights and gambling.
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