<p>Mysuru: The stage is set for grand <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/dasara">Dasara </a>celebrations this year with the Heritage city Mysuru welcoming the first set of nine Dasara elephants to Mysuru Palace premises on Friday morning.</p><p>Amid the tunes of Mangalavadya, in the absence of chairperson of Dasara Executive Committee H C Mahadevappa, Vice Chairman of the committee and KPCC working President MLA Tanveer Sait offered prayers to the Pachyderms at 10:11 am. The puja was performed in the auspicious Tula lagna at the Jayamarthanda gate of Mysuru Palace. </p><p>MLA Harish Gowda and BJP MLA T S Srivatsa, Mysuru DC G Lakshmikanth Reddy, APCCF Kumar Pushkar, Chief Conservator of Forest (Mysuru circle) Malathi Priya, DCF (wild life) Mysuru division I B Prabhu Gowda joined him.</p>.Officials say, 'no information' on minor tremors in Karnataka's Kodagu .<p>They offered floral benediction and fed the elephants sugarcane, jaggery. As the personnel of Police department offered gaurd of honour to the guests of Mysuru-the gentle giants Abhimanyu, Dhananjaya, Gopi, Bheema, Rohit, Kanjan, Ekalavya, Varalakshmi and Lakshmi they flanked their trunks.</p><p>Later they marched towards Palace majestically in a mini procession featured by Police band, poorna kumba (kalashas) carried by five women, mounted cops, folk cultural troupes including Dollu kunitha, pooja kunitha, kamsaale and Gaarudi gombe. </p><p>Speaking on the occasion, Tanveer Sait said, "We have offered puja to Elephants and welcomed them praying for successful Dasara which attracts tourists from across the world."</p>
<p>Mysuru: The stage is set for grand <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/dasara">Dasara </a>celebrations this year with the Heritage city Mysuru welcoming the first set of nine Dasara elephants to Mysuru Palace premises on Friday morning.</p><p>Amid the tunes of Mangalavadya, in the absence of chairperson of Dasara Executive Committee H C Mahadevappa, Vice Chairman of the committee and KPCC working President MLA Tanveer Sait offered prayers to the Pachyderms at 10:11 am. The puja was performed in the auspicious Tula lagna at the Jayamarthanda gate of Mysuru Palace. </p><p>MLA Harish Gowda and BJP MLA T S Srivatsa, Mysuru DC G Lakshmikanth Reddy, APCCF Kumar Pushkar, Chief Conservator of Forest (Mysuru circle) Malathi Priya, DCF (wild life) Mysuru division I B Prabhu Gowda joined him.</p>.Officials say, 'no information' on minor tremors in Karnataka's Kodagu .<p>They offered floral benediction and fed the elephants sugarcane, jaggery. As the personnel of Police department offered gaurd of honour to the guests of Mysuru-the gentle giants Abhimanyu, Dhananjaya, Gopi, Bheema, Rohit, Kanjan, Ekalavya, Varalakshmi and Lakshmi they flanked their trunks.</p><p>Later they marched towards Palace majestically in a mini procession featured by Police band, poorna kumba (kalashas) carried by five women, mounted cops, folk cultural troupes including Dollu kunitha, pooja kunitha, kamsaale and Gaarudi gombe. </p><p>Speaking on the occasion, Tanveer Sait said, "We have offered puja to Elephants and welcomed them praying for successful Dasara which attracts tourists from across the world."</p>