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Yeddyurappa offers puja at Kannur temple

KANNUR: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa visited the Rajarajeshwara Temple at Taliparamba here on Wednesday and offered an elephant in an ambience of devotion.

Mr. Yeddyurappa, who reached the Defence Security Corps Centre helipad here by helicopter at around 10.30 a.m., drove straight to the temple located 24 km from here to offer a nine-year-old elephant as a gift to the temple.

The Chief Minister, accompanied by two of his Cabinet colleagues, also offered prayers as part of the ‘nadayiruthal’ ritual held at the temple.

At the temple, Mr. Yeddyurappa was received by temple officials and priests. He also named the caparisoned elephant ‘Ganapathi’ at a nearby shrine during rituals supervised by temple head priest Chirangod Kesavan Namboodiri.

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