Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Oct 26 (ANI): People in Karnataka celebrated a unique footwear festival and offered slippers to a Hindu goddess to have their wishes come true. Devotees thronged Lakamma Devi temple in Kalaburagi district to mark the festival, ‘Chhapal Jatra’, and tied strings of footwear to a tree outside the 600-year-old temple. The two-day jatra is celebrated in the district ever year and is widely recognised in the country as the footwear festival. A devotee said people come to the temple which, has no idol to offer prayers for this festival regardless of their caste, creed and religion. People also offer vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes to the goddess besides footwear, along with sarees, traditional dress of Indian women, which are tied to the capstone of the temple.
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