Ongole bulls collaborating in Makara Sankaranti at Annambotlavaripalem, close to right here, on Saturday.
| Picture Credit score: KOMMURI SRINIVAS

‘Makara Sankaranti’ festivities started on a grand word in Prakasam and Nellore districts of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday with former Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu main the celebrations in Venkatachalam on the outskirts of Nellore.

Cattle exhibits, Ram fights, kolatam and rangoli competitors have been organised in the course of the celebrations in Nellore, the place Mr. Venkaiah Naidu and Defence Analysis and Improvement Organisation Chairman G. Satheesh Reddy took half.

Kovur, a city close to Nellore, was additionally abuzz with exercise as pairs of bulls from throughout the Southern States arrived within the city for the Rekla race.

In Ongole, vedic scholar Matampalli Dakshinamurthi led a gaggle of monks in performing the Godhadevi Kalyanam with Lord Ranganatha on the Santhapeta Sai Baba temple on the final day of the Dhanur Masam when devotees recited ‘Thiruppavai’.