Gandhi-150’ Padayatra Flagged Off: Padayatra to Encourage Youth to Follow Gandhi’s Ideologies

Gandhi-150’ Padayatra Flagged Off: Padayatra to Encourage Youth to Follow Gandhi’s Ideologies

October 21: Dakshina Kannada MP and BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel flagged off the ‘Gandhi-150’ padayatra organised by the BJP district committee in front of the Gandhi statue at the Town Hall in Mangalore on Sunday, October 20.

Members of Legislative Assembly D Vedavyas Kamath, Dr Y Bharath Shetty S Angara and many others took part. The BJP leaders and workers were wearing khadi clothes and ‘Gandhi topi’.
State President Nalin Kumar Kateel said that the BJP is carrying out rallies across the nation, remembering the Mahatma as per the call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He also said that various programmes dedicated to the memory of Mahatma have been organised nationwide by the BJP and these programmes are directed to encourage people, especially the youth, to walk on the footprints of Mahatma Gandhi.
Puttur MLA and BJP district President Sanjeeva Matandoor said that the party leaders and workers will carry out a 150-km padayatra in each Assembly constituency of Dakshina Kannada on account of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi till November 5.