Goddess Parameswari’s Self-Sacrifice Celebrated As State Festival

KAKINADA: AP government has announced that the day of sacrifice of Goddess Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari will be celebrated as a State Festival.

The announcement in this regard was made by Water Resources minister Nimmala Ramanaidu, who, along with her husband Surya Kumari and Achanta MLA Pithani Satyanarayana, offered silk robes to the Goddess at her shrine in Penugonda on Tuesday.

Ramanaidu said that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, on behalf of the coalition government, had declared that the day of sacrifice of Sri Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari Ammavaru will be celebrated as a state festival from now on.

The minister said this marks the state government’s rich tributes to the Goddess, who is the symbol of sacrifice, truth and righteousness. He underlined that the sacrifice is not death, but the greatest sacrifice made by Adi Shakti, the symbol of feminine power, for the sake of righteousness.

Ramanaidu underlined that the message of the Goddess is not limited to any caste or religion.