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ABVP's Vande Mataram Sandesh Yatra comes to Bhalki

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`Unjustified high regard for western lifestyle has made us adopt foreign solutions to Indian problems'

BIDAR: Mindless aping of western culture and disregard for the native way of life has cost us heavily, secretary of the State unit of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Ravi Kumar said on Thursday.

He was speaking at the Vande Mataram Sandesh Yatra in Bhalki.

"Unjustified high regard for western lifestyle has made us adopt foreign solutions to Indian problems. This has made us take suicidal steps in many fields, including agriculture, health care, industrial development and education," he said.

High cost and mechanised farming has increased the cost of cultivation and debt burden on farmers. Expensive and institutional health care has led to the death of indigenous methods of treatment, industrial development has eroded handicrafts and small-scale industries and the higher education system is out of the reach of the poor, he added. The objective of the education system has changed from a tool of socio-economic dynamism to a way to create wealth for private managements. Mr. Kumar said the parishad will fight the "westernisation" of thought.

The yatra is a movement against westernisation, corruption, and terrorism. He called upon the students to develop the spirit that led to the independence movement.

The yatra was received at the city gates. Hundreds of students took out a procession in the city and raised slogans in memory of the heroes of the freedom struggle.

Regional secretary Prabhudev Kapagal, district secretary Shivakumar Chimkode, Seetaram Bharanya, Lakshman Deonnor, Sudhir Nayak, Sunil Kumar Honnale, Shivu Lokhande, Suraj Singh, Kapil Kalyani and others led the rally.

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