Logo for Srirangapatna Dasara released

The logo for the Srirangapatna Dasara, which will be held from September 25 to 28, was released by the Mandya district in-charge Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy on Friday.

The Minister said that film director and actor T.S. Nagabharana will inaugurate this year’s festivities and that the programmes would be well organised for which the preparations were already on.

MLA for Srirangapatna Ramesh Babu Bandisidde Gowda, MLA for Mandya P. Ravikumar, Deputy Commissioner Kumar, Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer K.R. Nandini, Additional Deputy Commissioner B.C. Shivanandamurthy, and others attended the launch event.

The Srirangapatna Dasara is significant as it was in this historic town from 1610 CE that the Wadiyars of Mysuru started celebrating the festival on the lines of the grand events that used to be organised by the rulers of the Vijayanagar empire.

After the collapse of the Vijayanagar empire, the Wadiyars who were one of their feudatories and staunch allies, asserted their independence, and it was Raja Wadiyar who ascended the throne in Srirangapatna in 1610 CE and ordered that Dasara should be celebrated in a grand manner.

The Mysuru Dasara, as it is famous in the present times, commenced after the fall of Tipu Sultan in 1799 CE and the shifting of the capital from Srirangapatna to the present day city of Mysuru.

However, the genesis of Mysuru Dasara is traceable to Srirangapatna, which in turn drew all the elements of paraphernalia and grandeur from the rulers of the Vijayanagar empire. Since then, there has been an unbroken tradition of celebrating Dasara in a grand manner, and it continues to this day.