CHENNAI: To mark the platinum jubilee of the Harijan Sevak Sangh, a yatra to eradicate untouchability and promote peace and communal harmony will be organised from Chennai on September 15.
At a press conference here on Wednesday, president of the Sangh Nirmala Deshpande MP said Unite Hearts would be flagged off by Governor Surjit Singh Barnala. “We have also written to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to participate in the function.”
September 15 is significant as on the same date 86 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi started the Khadi movement by mobilising people’s support through a yatra in Tamil Nadu.
Ms. Deshpande, also president of the Akhil Bharat Rachanatmak Samaj, said she had appealed to all parties and religious leaders to help remove untouchability by taking part in the year-long programmes planned as part of the platinum jubilee. During the second week of November, the Sangh would hold a re-union meeting in Pune for the Sangh members to discuss ways and means of establishing equality in society. P. Maruthi, state president of the Harijan Sevak Sangh, said the Sangh would make use of the yatra as an eye opener in its crusade against untouchability.
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