Hyderabad, July 20 -- The Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samithi (BGUS), which organises the towering Khairatabad Ganesh idol, the city's tallest and most famous, on Monday, July 20, asked organisers of Ganesh pandals across Telangana to sing Vande Mataram and hoist the national flag on September 17 to mark the 150th anniversary of the national song, as part of this year's Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations.

The call was given at a committee meeting of pandal organisers from across the state, held at Pulla Reddy School in Moosapet and chaired by BGUS president G Raghava Reddy. As many as 64 representatives from 32 centres attended the meeting, the samithi said.

The organisation said Ganesh Chaturthi would be celebrated on September 14, with the im...