Will CM break Chamarajnagar jinx?

Mysuru: Breaking the jinx that a Chief Minister who visits Chamarajnagar town would lose power, will Chief Minister B S Yedyurappa who is visiting Malemahadeshwara Hills in Kollegal taluk, Chamarajnagar district (during his visit to Mysuru and Chamarajnagar from Tuesday to Thursday), visit Chamarajnagar town this time?

It is his first visit to Chamarajnagar district after he became the Chief Minister this time. As of now as per his tour plan, Yedyurappa will be visiting Malemahadeshwara temple at M M Hills in Chamarajnagar district on Wednesday and he will reside at M M Hills that night and leave for Bengaluru from there on Thursday. He would be visiting Suttur Math, Saaloor Math at M M Hills and he would be participating in meeting of M M Hills Development Authority and attend the Constitution Day programme at MM Hills itself.

Yeddyurappa had not visited Chamarajnagar town during his tenure as the Chief Minister last time too though he had just addressed an election rally at Gundupet in Chamarajnagar district.

Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has however broken the jinx already and has visited Chamarajnagar town 11 times when he was the Chief Minister and he completed his tenure as CM too.

This theory of jinx dates back to the times of D Devaraj Urs who lost Chief Minister's post within six months of his visit to Chamarajanagar in 1980. Later Chief Ministers, R Gundu Rao, Ramakrishna Hegde, S R Bommai and Veerendra Patil lost power after they visited Chamarajanagar in 1982, 1988 and 1989, in 1991 respectively. Later Chief Ministers including S Bangarappa, M Veerappa Moily, H D Deve Gowda, J H Patel, S M Krishna and N Dharam Singh avoided visiting Chamarajanagar. Though Chamarajanagar became an independent district in 1997 during the tenure of J H Patel, he avoided visiting the district and inaugurated the district at a function organised in M M Hills in Kollegal. S M Krishna only visited Kollegal and M M Hills during his tenure as Chief Minister but avoided visiting Chamarajanagar. Later, former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy visited Chamarajanagar, and he too lost power because of political developments. Later, when B S Yedyurappa was Chief Minister, he addressed an election rally at Gundlupet but, avoided going to Chamarajnagar town. Later CM D V Sadananda Gowda avoided visiting the place, but Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar went there at the end of his term.

Yedyurappa, who will be in Mysuru on Tuesday and Wednesday, will inaugurate the new building of Mysuru City Police Commissioner's Office on Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday, he will lay foundation stone for renovation of Bramaramba Sametha Mallikarjunswamy Temple at Mudukthore in T Narsipur taluk in Mysuru district.