63 feet lord Ganesha Khairatabad | Bada Ganesh | 69TH year celebrations

63 feet lord Ganesha Khairatabad | Bada Ganesh | 69TH year celebrations | Hyderabad Bada Ganesh

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Inspired by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Singari Shankaraiah first established a 1 foot (0.30 m) Ganesh idol in 1954 at a temple in Khairatabad. The height of the constructed idol increased by one foot every year until 2014, where it reached 60 feet (18 m). The size was later reduced owing to the limitations of the route to Hussain Sagar lake and environmental concerns. The idol's peak height was 61 feet (19 m) in 2019, thereby becoming the tallest idol of Ganesh in India that year. The organizing committee then decided to reduce the height gradually, following the High Court's order to cap the height at 20 feet (6.1 m).In 2019, the height was increased to 61 feet (19 m)due to requests from the devotees.
Khairatabad Ganesh is also known for its laddu, offered as prasadam.Until 2009, the Khiaratabad Ganesh Utsav committee used to place a 50 kg laddu at the pandal.Starting from 2010 until 2015, the laddu was offered by PVVS Mallikarjun Rao a.k.a. Malli Babu, who is a sweet maker from Tapeswaram, a village located in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. It was made in Tapeswaram and transported to the idol location at Khairatabad, and came to be known as Tapeswaram laddu.Rao donated a laddu weighing 500 kg in 2010, which gradually increased to 6000 kg in 2015.This is the heaviest laddu offered in the idol's history.
In 2016, the Utsav committee asked Rao to reduce the laddu weight to 600 kg, citing the distribution of large laddu to devotees as a problem.Later, Rao announced that he would not be donating laddu any further to Khairatabad, alleging that the committee had breached their contract by placing the laddu at the feet of Ganesha instead of placing it in hands as agreed before. The same year, Rao entered the Guinness World Records by creating a laddu weighing 29,465 kg which was presented to a Ganesh idol at Visakhapatnam.
Since 2016, the laddu is presented by J. Tanay Rana and his family who run an air-cooler business in Hyderabad. The presented laddu, which weighed 62 kg in 2016, reached 1,100 kg in 2021.
Once the puja ceremony is completed, the laddu is distributed to the devotees,ranging between 2,000 and 3,000 every year. In 2015, overcrowding led to an almost stampede situation. The police were unable to control the crowd due to broken barricades and had to stop the distribution in the middle.