Mysuru: - A grand colourful procession of farmers on their decorated bullock carts accompanied by half-a-dozen ‘Banduru Kuri’ sheep breed, folk troupes and tableaux marked the inauguration of Raitha Dasara here yesterday.
Agriculture Minister N.H. Shivashankar Reddy inaugurated the celebrations by beating ‘Nagari’ and flagged off the procession after offering ‘pushparchane’ to Nandi Dwaja at Kote Anjaneyaswamy temple in front of the Mysore Palace. Later, Minister Shivashankar Reddy accompanied by District Minister G.T. Devegowda, Tourism Minister S.R. Mahesh, rode the bullock carts from Kote Anjaneyswamy temple to K.R. Circle.
