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Sachin Tendulkar to inaugurate Mysuru Dasara?

Sachin Tendulkar to inaugurate Mysuru Dasara?

 

The committee, headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, has formally submitted all the administrative decisions regarding the annual Mysuru Dasara festival.

 

The grand festival will be inaugurated on October 1 on Chamundi Hills. This year, the Jamboo Savari (procession by elephants carrying the golden howdah) will be held on the 11th day, on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami.

 

The last pending decision is choosing someone to inaugurate the festival. That decision will be taken after a meeting on August 9.

According to sources, one of the names in the forefront is of cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar.

 

Other names which were considered as the inaugural invitee are writers Channaveera Kanavi and Nisar Ahmed and the Suttur Deshikendra Seer.

 

Earlier, Mysuru's MP Pratap Simha had written to the chief minister, asking the invite to be given to writer SL Bhyrappa. However, Simha was absent from the meeting held to discuss the Dasara festival.

 

Last year, keeping in mind the series of suicides by farmers and the severe drought in the North Karnataka, the usually grand Dasara festival was organised in a simple fashion.

 

This year as well, the event will not be too grand. But it will be traditional and attractive, the chief minister said.

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