Minister Satyavathi visits Basar temple

Tribal welfare minister Satyavathi Rathod visited the famed Sri Gnana Saraswathi Devi temple and performed special prayers in Basar on Thursday.

Satyavathi along with her family members thronged the temple in the morning and had darshan of presiding deity Saraswathi Devi. She then performed Aksharabhyasam or initiation into the world of alphabets to her granddaughter Kiyara



Rathod on the premises of the shrine. She said that she felt happy to have visited the abode of the goddess of wisdom.

Earlier, the minister was welcomed by priests and vedic scholars of the temple. Local revenue authorities made necessary arrangements, while police escorted Satyavathi during her visit to the shrine.