GUNTUR: Ayyappa devotees demanded arranging cash for completion of their pilgrimage. The demonetisation of currency notes disturbed the lives of the public in various forms and now the Ayyappa devotees are hit by the shortage of liquid cash.
The angry Ayyappa devotees staged Vanta Varpu (cooking and serving food) protest in front of Central Bank of India against absence of liquid cash at Gotti-padu in Prattipadu mandal of Guntur district on Thursday. The devotees lamented about facing difficulties due to the absence of small currency notes.
As many as 100 Ayyappa devotees went to the Central Bank of India seeking currency notes for their pilgrimage to Kerala. They explained that they are going to complete their Ayyappa Deeksha to holy Pamba and sought arrangement of currency notes.
They lamented that devotees are making rounds of the bank for the past one week in vain. Ayyappa devotees, D Nageswara Rao, K Venkateswarlu and others said that they need at least '10,000 per head to complete the deeksha.
