Hyderabad: For a second consecutive year, the annual Milad procession in Hyderabad has been postponed in view of the Ganesh festival. Markazi Milad Juloos Committee, the organisers of the procession, decided to defer the procession to September 14.
Milad-un-Nabi is scheduled to be celebrated on September 5 while Ganesh immersion procession is scheduled the next day.
Milad Juloos Committee leaders along with All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, party leader in Telangana Assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi met Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Friday.
They requested the CM to arrange illumination of historic mosques and dargahs and ensure free electricity supply on the occasion of Milad, the CMO said. The committee members also sought permission to organise processions across the state on September 14.
Every year, the Committee takes out a procession to mark Milad. However, for a second consecutive year, it is coinciding with Ganesh festivities.
Eleven-day Ganesh festivities, which began on August 27, conclude on September 6 with the immersion procession. Idols installed across Hyderabad will be immersed in lakes on various days. Police have already made elaborate security arrangements for the festival. About 30,000 policemen will be deployed to maintain peace and ensure smooth conduct of the immersion procession on September 6.
As maintaining law and order and ensuring smooth conduct of the Ganesh immersion procession is a huge challenge for the government, last year the CM and the ministers had suggested to the Milad Committee to consider the possibility of postponing the Milad Un Nabi procession. The Committee had agreed to postpone the procession but requested the Chief Minister to permit them to organise year-long celebrations of the Prophet’s 1500th birthday in 2025. The Chief Minister said that the government will give permissions as per the rules.
The committee members appealed to give permission for the decoration of mosques and processions in the district headquarters.
This is the second year in a row that Milad procession was postponed in view Ganesh festival. Last year Ganesh immersion coincided with Milad-un-Nabi and on the request of then BRS government, Milad Committee has postponed the procession.
