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Thanksgiving : RBI Governor D. Subba Rao with wife Urmila offering prayers at the Lord Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala on Friday |
The hill temple of Lord Venkateswara witnessed the visit of two VVIP devotees on Friday — Minister for External Affairs, S.M. Krishna and the Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Duvvuri Subba Rao. While the MoEA was here on a pilgrimage-cum-official programme — to declare open the new premises of the passport office at Tirupati, the RBI Governor Dr. Subba Rao was purely on a pilgrimage and he has even subtly declined on that ground to speak the media, as they tried to take a few bytes from him as he came out of the temple after their morning darshan. The two dignitaries visited the temple separately accompanied by their spouses and other family members and were given a warm welcome by the temple authorities as they reached the Mahadwaram. As is the custom in the Tirumala temple, after paying their obeisance to the Lord, they went round the precincts of the shrine and were later seated at the Ranganayakula Mandapam where the temple authorities presented them with the Lord's prasadams even as priests blessed them with long life and prosperity reciting verses from the scriptures.
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