Chamarajanagar: The District Administration has cancelled the annual Chamarajeshwara Rathotsava this year. This is for the first time in 179 years that the annual fair had been cancelled. The officials have sighted the inability to build a new chariot within a short time and also pending renovation works of the temple to be the reason for cancelling this year’s annual Jathra Mahotsava. A decision in this regard was announced by Deputy Commissioner B. Ramu at a meeting with district-level officers yesterday.
The Rathotsava, which is held in a grand manner every year during the month of Ashada, was to be held on July 9 this year. But a miscreant set the chariot of fire in the month of February this year which damaged its few portions.
