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Mangalamayi Mahayagam in December

Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Viswa Sanathana Vedanta Trust will organise a Mangalamayi Mahayagam here from December 9 to 17. The `yaga' will be held at four mandapams to be set up at the Putharikandam Maidan.

A 106-member organising committee has been formed to conduct the yaga.

Head of the royal family of erstwhile Travancore Uthradom Tirunal Marthanda Varma, NSS president P.V. Neelakanta Pillai, Swami Abhayananda Theerthapadar, Viswa Sanathana Vedanta Trust chairman C.S. Harikumar, the former Chief Secretary R. Ramachandran Nair, poet P. Narayana Kurup, music director M.G. Radhakrishnan, BJP leader B.K. Sekhar and the former Sabarimala Melsanthi Goshala Vishnu Vasudevan participated in the meeting held here to form the organising committee.

A release here said the yaga would be conducted to promote peace and amity and save the people from the woes of daily life and natural calamities.

As many as three lakh people are expected to visit the yaga every day.

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