The city is gearing up to host a state Cabinet meeting at the Mini Vidhana Soudha on Thursday.
It is for the fourth time that the city is hosting a Cabinet meeting.
The logo adopted by the government for the occasion has raised a few eyebrows in the region.
While a few feel that the BJP government is trying to showcase the development in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region in the four years of the party’s rule, others feel that the logo itself indicates the internal feud and the present status of the state-unit of the BJP.
The logo for the meeting shows a smiling Chief Minister, Jagadish Shettar seeing three birds fly.
It has ‘Cabinet Meeting’ inscribed in a rainbow. Below the rainbow, famous monuments of Gulbarga are depicted on a lush, green lawn.
Political experts deciphering the logo have said that the BJP government is sybolising the birds to the development that Hyderabad-Karnataka region has seen in its four-year rule.
When the first Cabinet Meeting of the BJP government was held in Gulbarga on September 26, 2008, a weaver bird resting in its nest (apparently laying eggs) was adopted as the logo. Political experts then had said that the BJP government tried to convey a message (through the logo) that it wanted to develop the Hyderabad-Karnataka region.
For the second Cabinet meeting held here on August 27, 2009, the logo adopted was a weaver bird looking at its eggs in its nest.
Experts then interpreted that though the government had taken steps to develop the region, the development is yet to be actually realised. For the third Cabinet meeting in Gulbarga held on October 4, 2010, the logo was a weaver bird feeding its young, apparently symbolising that the BJP government’s efforts in strengthening its developmental schemes in the region. No Cabinet meeting was held in Gulbarga last year.
According to political experts, the BJP government is now trying to claim (through the Cabinet Meeting logo) that the birds of development had become a reality in the region.
Flying birds symbolically mean that the schemes promised for the region by the BJP earlier have finally taken shape and have been achieved.
But some political critics are making a different commentary on the logo making it relevent to the present status of the state BJP.
“Now the birds (leaders) are not in the need of the nest (BJP) anymore. They are coming out flying after destroying the nest.”