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'Dahi Handi' offers big this Gokulashtami

August 22, 2008
This year's biggest event of 'Dahi Handi' in the metropolis has been organised by Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane-supported group, Dharamveer Samajik Sanstha, in suburban Mankhurd with a prize money of Rs 11,11,111.

Dharamveer Singh, president of Sanstha, and general secretary of North East district Congress, however denies Rane is funding the event. He said the fund is being raised through his friends and close business associates.

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Image: A file photo show visually-impaired children breaking the 'dahi-handi' at their school in Mumbai.
Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

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