Mysore/Mysuru: Home Minister Dr. G. Parameshwar has weighed in on the ongoing controversy over the choice of Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq as the inaugurator for this year’s Mysuru Dasara, stressing that the festival is a celebration for everyone, beyond religious or caste boundaries.
Speaking to reporters in Mysuru this morning, he said, “Dasara is a festival of the land. It is not confined to any one religion or community. Can we celebrate Dasara by excluding one religion? Wasn’t Mirza Ismail, the then Diwan, instrumental in organising Dasara? Didn’t writer Nissar Ahmed inaugurate the festival in the past?”
