Kadlekai Parish starts this weekend
La Parroquia Kadlekai de Bengaluru or the men’s fair will begin this weekend. The annual event, which is the high point of the city’s calendar, is held after the first harvest of the crop.
The Parish posts will be aligned in the tram between 3rd Cross, NR Colony and Ramakrishna Math. There will also be stalls selling household items, clothes and fast food.
You can expect to try different varieties of Kadelakai like Salem, Samrat, Badami, Sana and Dappa Kai at the fair.
Vendors are busy setting up their stands all over the city. Valarmani, a vendor from Yeshwanthpur, has brought about 45 bags of beans. “Each bag weighs about 30 kg. Let us sell all this and make good profits”, he said. A vendor who came with his family is hopeful that more visitors will come this year. “We expect a huge influx this year. We have brought different types of Kadalekai from Yeshwanthpur”, he said.
Of about 700 posts, 350 were sold, said former alcalde B S Satyanarayana, who is also a committee member of the parish of Kadlekai. It is estimated that this fair attracts 14 lakh people every year. “The program will have about 25 police towers to guarantee maintenance of law and order,” he said. He said that apart from farmers from villages in Bengaluru, there will also be vendors from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
citizens’ petitions
Secretary Guruprasad R. Of the stage. He said that this did not happen last year and this created many problems.
This year, various groups of citizens and NGOs, such as Youth for Parivartan, Basavanagudi Kannada Balaga and Prathibimba Trust, are interested in “banning the use of plastic bags” and promoting the use of cloth bags at the event, says Satish Urala. Keep. , Sathish is a resident of Basavanagudi and is the president of Association Appu Balaga, a club of fans of late actor Puneeth Rajkumar. “Earlier the parish used to last only for a few or two days, but today it has increased to three or more days,” he said. Each year, the association provides carpets and food to vendors in the parish.
Citizens have also asked the authorities to ban the sale of toy sticks, said Satyalakshmi Rao, a civic activist from Basavanagudi.
