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TTD to set up `bhajan mandals'

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VIZIANAGARAM: With a view to spreading `Sri Venkateswara naamam' and promoting Hindu culture and spiritualism, the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams executive body has decided to link small temples in remote areas and constitute bhajan mandals.

Members of the mandals will promote `bhakti' through bhajans and `kolatam' in their respective villages, according to TTD Chairman B. Karunakara Reddy. At a press conference here on Wednesday, Mr. Reddy said that the TTD would perform 50,000 mass marriages at all TTD kalyanamandapams in the State on February 22.

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