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KCR to make offering of 51 goats at Muslim shrine for thanksgiving

Omer Farooq

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, while  continuing his “thanksgiving” spree, will visit a famous Muslim shrine next week and make an offering of 51 goats to fulfil the vow during his movement for separate Telangana State.

Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali who has been asked to make arrangements for the occasion said that Rao will pay a visit to Dargah Jahangir Peeran in Mahbubnagar district on November 10. 51 goats will be sacrificed and food will be cooked for 5,000 people on the occasion.

So far KCR has visited several famous temples in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and made offerings of gold ornaments to the deities their. He also sent a Chadar to the famous shrine of Khaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Rajasthan to fulfil his vow.

"KCR had made the vow that if Telangana State becomes a reality he will visit the Dargah and make an offering. Now he is going to fulfil it", Mahmood Ali said.

Telangana Government was also in the process of fulfilling its promise of building a guest house in Ajmer for the pilgrims from Telangana. "I have already visited Rajasthan and handed over a letter from our Chief Minister to his Rajasthan counterpart for allotment of land in Ajmer,” he said. "The deal to purchase 30 acres of land will be completed very soon,” he added.