Nagarkurnool: In a noble gesture, the Marri Janardhan Reddy (MJR) Charitable Trust on Sunday held a mass wedding programme at Nagarkurnool district headquarters in Telangana where as many as 220 couples got hitched, sources said. The mass wedding was organized under the auspices of MJR Trust run by MLA Marri Janardhan Reddy.
On Sunday, mass wedding was conducted in the premises of Zilla Parishad Boys' High School in Nagarkurnool under the guidance of Trust Chairman, MLA Marri Janardhan Reddy. The school premises were decorated for the mass wedding. A total of 220 canopies were put up for as many couples to tie the knot. At 10.05 in the morning, 220 priests conducted marriages at the event.
MPs Nama Nageswara Rao, Kesha Rao, Government Whip Guvwala Balaraju, MLA Marri Janardhan Reddy and his wife, Collector Udaykumar and SP Manohar blessed the new couples. In the evening, each couple was given beer, bed, mattress, blankets, two chairs, steel equipment, cooker and a mixer by the MJR Trust.