Despite COVID-19 threat, people throng traditional banni festival
Deccan ChronicleKURNOOL: Banni, the traditional stick fight, that leaves scores of people injured, was held at Devaragutta village despite the ban imposed upon it by the district administration. Banni, popularly known as karrala samaram organised at midnight during the Dasara festival at Sri Mala Malleswara Swamy temple at Devaragattu hills in Holagunda mandal had been cancelled for the first time in its history which dates back to a few centuries. However, he said the police were successful in reducing the intensity of the scale of participation in this hair-raising stick fight that leaves people bruised and bloody. In accordance with the belief, the villagers of Neraniiki, Neranikitanda, Kothapeta, representing the followers of Siva, take the idols of Mala Malleswara Swamy from Devaragattu to their respective villages when villagers of Ellarti, Arikera, Maddigeri, Nitranatta, Sulavai and Hebbetam representing the followers of demons, obstruct them.
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