It was ‘Raja Habba’ as rightly put up by Raghavendra Rajakumar like Deepavali, Ugadi, Sankranthi etc at the Dr Rajakumar Memorial inauguration.

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah arrived on time with his colleagues and top cinema personalities Rajanikanth, Chiranjeevi, Ambarish, sons of Dr Rajakumar, family members of Dr Rajakumar were present when the statue of Dr Rajakumar was unveiled and memorial was inaugurated on Saturday morning in the presence of Smt Parvathamma Rajakumar and other cabinet colleagues.

Karnataka chief minister offered flower petals while ‘Nandadeepa’ 24x7 lamp at Dr Rajakumar Memorial was lighted by Smt Parvathamma Rajakumar with fourth generation of actor from the family Vinay Rajakumar assisting his grandmother. The popular song at the family functions was rendered at this time of lighting the lamp.

With colourful stage on one side the road inside the Kanteerava studio was meant for guests to drive in and reach Dr Rajakumar Memorial. First to come was ‘Ratha Yathre’ that started from Dr Rajakumar birthplace Gajanur of Chamarajanagara district and the torch was brought at the memorial place around 10.30 am.

Raj Ratha Yathra collected signature of 90000 people for donation of eyes. The slogan it contained was ‘Nethra Dhana Maha Dhana – Kannadave Sathya Kannadave Nithya’.

Only the guest’s names on the invitation were allowed near the inauguration of Dr Rajakumar Memorial.

It was a very tight security arrangement from Karnataka state police controlled the fans entering the memorial in the morning.