Mr. Veeramani Raju a very popular devotional  singer from Chennai  gave a scintillating performance on the opening day of the three day Makara Shankanthi's Ayyappa Bhaktha Samithi pooja festival at Matunga on January 12. The highlight of the day's performance was his songs "Pallikattu Sabarimalaikku", "Bhagavan Saranam" on Lord Ayyappa and a few notes on Sirdi Sai Bhabha ,Lord Guruvayoorappa and Lord Subramanya gave him rounds of applause from packed audience.

 

Sri Ayyappa Bhaktha Samiti, at Dadar  celebrates Ayyappa pooja festival  since 1950 at Napoo Garden at Matunga. Started by late Mr.V.Krishnan Nair , this organization  has been conducting this festival which was then the first of its kind in Maharashtra . “We make  out of  banana stems , four temples ,which is  a replica of all the temples in Sabarimala in Kerala  and a mosque  of Vavar  ,a Muslim confident of Lord Ayyappa “ said his son Mr. Gopalakrishna Nair. On January 14  a procession of Lord Ayyappa will be taken out from the nearby Shiva temple with Velichapadu (Oracle) carrying sword and dagger which are the weapons of the Lord and led by Pancha Vadhyam and Nadaswaram