Hyderabad: Harish Rao to attend Mrityunjaya Yagnam

Hyderabad: Finance Minister T Harish Rao will be attending Maha Mrityunjaya Yagnam being organised by Satyam Shivam Sundaram Gounivas on December 14. The Goshala located at Gaganpahad houses 5,500 cows.

Dr V Lakshma Reddy, Director, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Telangana, will also be attending the Yagna being organised to ward off all evils including COVID-19. Over 5000 animal lovers are expected to grace the Maha Mrityunjaya Yagnam at different timings all through the day.

The 82-year-old animal lover, Dharamraj Ranka has been supplying cow dung as biopesticide under Dharthi Sundar initiative free of cost to poor farmers and encouraging them to go for eco-farming and he is a pioneer of Gou Shala concept in twin cities and runs two Goshalas in Hyderabad, as a matter of principle Ranka stopped wearing footwear over 25 years and travels only in auto

Dharam Raj Ranka, said the Yagna will be performed through a combination of about 100 varieties of medicinal plants brought from Himayalas to protect citizens of this country from difficult and life-threatening times.