Four CMs, three Governors to grace Saibaba’s b'day bash on Nov 23

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Four CMs, three Governors to grace Saibaba’s b'day bash on Nov 23

Saturday November 19 2005 11:20 IST

 

ANANTAPUR: Chief Ministers of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Andhra

Pradesh Dharam Singh, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Narendra Modi and YS

Rajasekhara Reddy respectively, Governors Chaturvedi, SM Krishna, Sushil

Kumar Shinde, Central Home Minister Shivraj Patel, cricketers Sunil

Gavaskar, Ganguli and Lakshman among other notable persons would be

attending Satya Saibaba’s birthday celebrations on Nov 23 at

Puttaparthi, said Saibaba’s brother R Ratnakara Raju.

 

Free meals thrice a day are being provided to all the visitors from on

Friday till Nov 24 at Prashanti Nilayam. Cultural programmes would be

conducted in the evenings at Sai Kulwant hall by the well-known

musicians like Sivakumar, Alikhan, Sivamani, Zakir Hussain, Parvin

Sultan, Santoor and Rock Gilepsy.

 

Rathotsavam was performed on Friday and Chinese Music ‘Vibhavari’ would

be performed in the evening. Saibaba would give darshan everyday at 7 am

and participate in the mass meals programme at 10 am. He would again

give darshan to the devotees in the evening.

 

Saibaba as part of his social activities, laid pipelines to a length of

2,500 km with Rs 300 crore to supply drinking water to 900 villages.

 

Similarly, he quenched the thirst of people of Mahaboobnagar and Medak

districts by investing Rs 150 crore and another Rs 150 crore was spent

to supply drinking water to 600 villages in East and West Godavari

districts, said Ratnakara Raju.

 

As part of Saibaba’s birthday celebrations, free clothes were

distributed among 60,000 persons around Puttparthi and 25,000 food

packets were also distributed.