Tensions remained high on Tuesday (September 10, 2024) because many devotees who had come to the Tank Bund with Ganesh idols for immersion were said to have been stopped by the police instead.
Banners also read, ‘No idol immersion on Tank Bund’ and these were seen along the road created by the Hyderabad police and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, GHMC.
This was in accordance with the order that was given out by the Telangana High Court in 2021, which does not permissible the immersion of POP idols in the Hussain Sagar. Some devotees were however busy illegally throwing their idols at & near the banks & parapet walls of the Tank bund stretch covering the entire stretch & ignoring the restrictions as were only there for the day.
Nevertheless, the local organisations in charge of ensuring that the Ganesh festival proceeds in an orderly manner in the city do not appear to be very satisfied with the limitations instilled.
Speaking on the issue, General Secretary of the Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsava Samithi Bhagwant Rao said, “No court or government can stop me from my birth right of drowning idols in the Hussain Sagar.’ That tradition has always existed, long before independence – numerous Ganesh idols made their way into water bodies.”
No active trouble had occurred as there were no such devotees on Tuesday, said the Dommalaguda Police. “Some people came on Monday night with small Ganeshas; when they were told that they have to wait until the high court order came in. After the order was passed, there were no such issues. We have not made any preventive detention either,” Inspector D. Srinivas Reddy Sahib stated.
