Mysuru: Sri Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple at Vijayanagar 1st Stage in city, will be distributing two lakh laddus to the devotees visiting the temple in Jan. 1, 2020 on the occasion of New Year.

Disclosing this at a press meet at the temple premises this morning, Temple Founder Sri Bashyam Swamiji said that the laddus will be distributed from 4 am to 12 midnight on Jan. 1. Twenty quintal Puliyogare will be distributed to the devotees, he added.

Continuing, he said that about 50 cooks have been preparing the laddus since Dec. 20 by using 100 quintal sugar, 50 quintal Chickpea flour (Kadale hittu), 4,000 litres oil, 200 kg cashew, 200 kg dry grapes, 100 kg Badami, 200 kg Diamond Sugar, 500 kg Bura Sugar, 10 kg Pista, 20 kg Elachi, 20 kg Nutmeg (Jakai), 5 kg Pacha Karpura and 100 kg cloves. He  added that 10,000 laddus weighing 2 kg and 2 lakh laddus weighing 200 grams each are being prepared.

Temple Administrator N. Srinivas was present at the press meet.