Hyderabad Stories published this report on 11 October 2026 as part of a review of September 2026. It was drafted with AI assistance from the reports listed at the end, each read in full; quotations are as those reports printed them. Photo above — File photo: the Khairatabad Ganesh during an earlier immersion at Hussain Sagar.
Hyderabad's best-known Ganesh idol was immersed in Hussain Sagar on Friday, 25 September 2026.
This year's Khairatabad idol — the 69-foot, eco-friendly Panchamukha Sankatahara Maha Ganapati — was lifted by crane onto a special Tusker vehicle in the morning and taken in procession via Telephone Bhavan and the Secretariat to NTR Marg. The two-kilometre journey took more than five hours, with thousands of devotees lining the lake. A crane lowered the idol into the water, and the immersion passed off smoothly.
Thousands had performed puja over the 12 days of the festival. Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla offered the first prayers on 14 September; Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy also performed puja. The Khairatabad Ganesh Utsav Committee, the police and the GHMC managed the procession.
The tradition began in 1954 with a one-foot idol, and the idol grew by a foot a year; in 2020, during the pandemic, the committee installed a one-foot idol instead of the planned 66-foot one.
Sources
- Khairatabad Bada Ganesh's idol immersion passes off smoothly — IANS via NewKerala, 25 September 2026
