Tiruvarur gearing up for car festival

May 06, 2018 09:28 am | Updated 08:31 pm IST - Tiruvarur

 Food Minister R. Kamaraj inspecting arrangements being made for the Sri Thyagarajaswamy Temple car festival at Tiruvarur, on Saturday.

Food Minister R. Kamaraj inspecting arrangements being made for the Sri Thyagarajaswamy Temple car festival at Tiruvarur, on Saturday.

Tiruvarur is gearing up for the car festival of Sri Thyagarajaswamy Temple on May 27.

While the district administration is getting ready to ensure smooth conduct of the festival and make adequate arrangements to handle the influx of devotees, Food Minister R. Kamaraj inspected the preparatory works for the event on Saturday.

Accompanied by L. Nirmal Raj, Collector, Mr. Kamaraj inspected the work on the preparation of the majestic, ‘Azhi Ther, ’ which stands 96 feet in height and weighs 350 tonnes.

In all, five cars including the Azhi Ther and those of Vinayagar, Subramaniar, Ambal and Chandikeswarar, would be pulled on the day.

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