15 days to go for Dasara, roads in bad shape; Govt. hard-pressed for time
Bengaluru: President of India Droupadi Murmu will inaugurate Mysuru Dasara-2022 atop Chamundi Hill on the morning of Monday, Sept. 26. This was announced by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in Bengaluru yesterday.
The President will set off the Navarathri festival by offering puja to Goddess Chamundeshwari atop Chamundi Hill in the presence of a host of dignitaries including the CM. This is for the first time that a President is inaugurating Dasara atop Chamundi Hill.
“Recently, we held a meeting to decide on who will inaugurate Dasara and the President’s name was proposed. It was the unanimous choice of all present in the meeting. Later, we wrote to Rashtrapati Bhavan and just today evening, the President’s Office has confirmed that Droupadi Murmu has consented to inaugurate the festivities,” CM Bommai told reporters in Bengaluru yesterday.
Two-day State tour
As per sources, the President will be on a two-day tour of Karnataka to coincide with the Dasara celebrations and most of the time during the two days, she will spend in Mysuru. The VVIP is expected to visit the Mysore Palace and meet the members of the Wadiyar family. Roads in Mysuru will get a facelift as the President is visiting Mysuru for the first time to open the Dasara festivities and the Government will take measures for cleaning and upkeep of the city.
As funds will be the major issue, like always, the State Government will have to release money. Earlier, the Government decided to release funds through MUDA but the development works are still kept in abeyance with no sign of road works. Now with the President confirming her visit to Mysuru, the State has to act fast as Sept. 26 is just 15 days away.
The CM is expected to hold meetings with the District Administration and chalk out plans to ensure that there is no lapse in either welcoming the President, during her stay in Mysuru or during her movement from one place to another.
Basavaraj Bommai is the Chairman of the Dasara High Powered Committee and the responsibility for the President’s visit is on him. Since this will be the President’s first visit to Karnataka, the administration has to ensure that everything goes well till the President leaves the State.
Programmes lined up
Several programmes will be held as part of Dasara under the aegis of the Department of Archaeology, Museums and Heritage to rediscover the heritage value of Dasara, important archaeological sites of Mysuru and the significance of many heritage buildings in the heart of the city.
Programmes will be held keeping in mind the target groups like school children, high school and college goers, tourists, senior citizens and the common public, the Chief Minister said.
On Sept. 26 at 10 am, the Department of Archaeology, Museums and Heritage will hold a photo exhibition and a collection of photos of heritage buildings and temples restoration and the exhibition will be held at Dasara Exhibition Grounds. On Sept. 29 at 7 am, traditional cycling will be held from the Town Hall premises and ‘Trin-Trin’ cycles will be used for the heritage tour, Bommai added.
On Sept. 30 at 7 am, couples dressed in traditional dresses will be taken on a tonga ride from the Town Hall premises.
“Droupadi Murmu”? A tribal woman put up for the election pf the president by Modi, knowing well that she will be ever grateful for him, and agree to whatever he says!
Is this best this Narendra Modi can do? There are a number of well educated and respected women in India, particularly in South India, who are distinguished as scientists and doctors. He could have chosen one of them.
If this Murmu, visits Western countries, she will struggle to impress and her interactions with the leaders there leave them wondering :” is this the best Indian can do”!
The last time Kovind, the previous president cam eto Mysore, the fool was praising Tipu Sultan, as the inventor of rocket technology! The idiot did not know the Chinese invented it centuries before, Tipu Sultan the Muslim Thug! That is the calibre of Indian presidents these days!!
I am from South Africa, visiting your country as part of invitation by your central government.
The reason why I stopped by your city was that in 1960s, my father was an exchange student in your university at Maharaja’s college. We have photographs of your city as it was in 1960, including this festival called Dasara. My father described to me, how beautiful this city was in 1960, with its cool weather and forest where he said he saw wild animals just like the forests in Africa.
But having arrived in the city I was disappointed to recognise it from my father’s description. It is so congested, polluted, hot with fumes of vehicles in its roads, and looked more like our Johannesburg -filthy, and perhaps as dangerous, as I was approached by one or two people asking for money. I got the taste of a third world country just like South Africa, when I was stopped at the Bangalore Airport customs, although I had a very light luggage. I could see the customs officer looking for bribe, when he was asking me questions. Finally, He asked me whether I had US Dollars-a signal for giving him some. I said I had South African Rand, and showed me the letter I got from the Foreign Minister of India asking us to visit his country. Seeing that letter, this official got scared, apologised for his mistake, and arranged a taxi for my hotel.
Your Palace looks fine, Maharaja’s college looks as though it needs very badly a renovation; but like usin Africa, the independence seems to have not brought any clean administration and clean politics. It appears only the 3 white former colonies-Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In Asia only Singapore has no corruption and officials there are very strict. Any one receiving bribes there are sent to jail for years after corporal punishment.
Not sure why you still celebrate this Dasara. My father said, there was a ruler then, respected and this event was good to witness.
This president will bee as bad as another one -Pratibha Patil, who with her head covered with her saree cut a patheyic figure during her visiis to the West.
The Congress too then had an opportunity to put forward a better woman presidential candidate, well educated and professional women, but they did not. May be Modi would have preferred Yogi Adityanath and the Congress a Muslim -the Imama of jama Masjid!
Correction:be
Talking about female presidents.
Narendra Modi, PM, met Kamala Harris during his visit tothe USA, a few months ago, and impressing on her Indian heritage invited her to visit India.
Kamala Harris, thinks herself as African-American and not Indian-American. Her hair and other features resembles her father Harris, a Jamaican of African descent. Jamaicans -of West Indies claim her as Jamaican.
The foolish natives of that Tamil Nadu town Tiruvarur, where he maternal grand father hailed from , were dancing in the streets holding Kamala Harris’s image in their placards, in the backdrop of cows grazing in a filed there. These idiots like the bigger idiot Narendra Modi,should know that Kamala Harris eats the meat of holy cows! She has married a white Jew! These black women who are black activists promoting blacks marry white men!
Kamala Harris’s mother it was said went to America hating the arranged marriage practice, and found a black African to marry. Well black men fascinated her mother!! She divorced him any way.
If KamakaHarris becomes the US president, most American dread this, as she is so hopeless and deluded, that the SOM led by Mr Ganapathy will sing the praise of her,just like he did for Trump. He will say with pride how Indians are conquering the West by becoming the political leaders there!!
Modi asked her to visit India to tell about her achievements as Indian -American. But she does want to be called African -American!
No wonder this idiotic Modi selected Droupadi Murmu as the president!
My friend
Africa is NO Less than Asia .
Bribe and corruption is every where in the World ( Europe ) Big nation corruption in Big amount.
Traffic Jam and other challenges are due to population and mistakes of previous government where planning was not done.
Any ways life is to appreciate leave the negative thought and carry positive memory and am sure you will carry it longer .
India mysore bangalore are among beautiful cities
god bless
@Y2810
Hello, your name sounds like a prisoner number in the prison block 2810.
Your posts suggest that you are just an ignoramus; your cities mentioned is no better than filthy cities in Africa and other Asian countries like Malaysia and Indonesia. At least in Africa, those countries have rich mineral wealth. Your country has nothing. Hence, you Indians are trying to emigrate in very rage numbers in Western countries, and even to the wilderness of New Zealand.
Don’t be an idiot. Bribery in the scale found in India, is no where existing in the other places in this world.
BTW, I am also one of the delegation members @mbanda mentioned.
@Y2810
Hello, your name sounds like a prisoner number in the prison block 2810.
Your posts suggest that you are just an ignoramus; your cities mentioned is no better than filthy cities in Africa and other Asian countries like Malaysia and Indonesia. At least in Africa, those countries have rich mineral wealth. Your country has nothing. Hence, you Indians are trying to emigrate in very rage numbers in Western countries, and even to the wilderness of New Zealand.
Don’t be an idiot. Bribery in the scale found in India, is no where existing in the other places in this world.
BTW, I am also one of the delegation members @mbanda mentioned.