Hyderabad: The annual Bonalu festival kicked off on Thursday in the city at the historic Golconda Fort.
The festival was kicked off after Forest minister P Indrakaran Reddy, Telangana Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav and Hyderabad Commissioner of Police Anjani Kumar offered a saree to Goddess Jagadambika in the temple at the fort.
Bonalu is celebrated every year in a grand manner in the state during the first month of the monsoon season.
This year, monsoon made landfall in the state on June 21.
[source_without_link]ANI[/source_without_link]