Hyderabad, Aug. 2 -- BRS Working President K T Rama Rao (KTR) on Sunday offered prayers at the Ujjaini Mahankali Temple in Secunderabad on the occasion of the Bonalu festival.

KTR was accompanied by former minister and MLA G Jagadish Reddy, former minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Amberpet MLA Kaleru Venkatesh and other party leaders.

In a post on X, KTR said people of Hyderabad and Secunderabad were offering Bonam to Goddess Mahankali with devotion and faith.

He said that before the formation of Telangana, there had been a demand to declare Bonalu a state festival, but "no one paid attention."

According to KTR, it was KCR himself who offered a golden Bonam to Ammavaru and recognised the Bonalu festival as the state festival after com...