Overview

• The ceremony was inaugurated by Telangana Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar and state Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud on June 8.
• The murrel fish are stuffed with an ancestral herbal paste that the Bathini family has prepared on Mrigasira Karthi for over a century.
• Municipal and health authorities carried out site inspections and organized extensive crowd-control and medical support in the days before the event.
• Devotees traveled from across Telangana and neighboring states, with many arriving before dawn to secure the prasadam.
• Scientists and health experts assert that no clinical evidence supports the fish prasadam’s asthma-curing claims, though organizers uphold its traditional importance.