Mangalore: The citizens of Mangalore under the banner of “DK Anti Corruption Forum” staged a satyagraha in front of DC Office on Tuesday, August 16 to support Jan Lok Pal Bill and the action of Anna Hazare.
Speaking on the occasion, 89 year old Gandhian Namdev Shenoy said that earlier he had participated in the movement held by Vinobha Bhave. He began his words with a song ‘Onde onde aagasadhadi novella onde’. He also said that this is non-violence satyagraha since the Gandhi also had conducted the Satyagraha with peace and not by using his lathi.
Even after 65 year, the people of the country did not get freedom, peace and justice. Today if we have to live in peace in the country, then everyone must join hands to fight against the corruption.
Recalling the old memories, Shenoy said that Vinobha Bhave had kept his hand on the face of him and asked fight against corruption and live in a single mantra ‘Jai Jagath’, hence forth it became the mantra of his like and has not taken pension from government till date. And further too will not take, he said.
We must make a way for ourself to live and this will be possible when all the people irrespective of religion, caste and creed and conduct a mass prayer to fight against corruption, he added.
T R Bhat, Vidya Dinakar, Dinesh Hegde Ulepady, V U George, Ananda Rao Pejavar, Jyothika Jain, Giridhar Kamath, Ranganath Hegde, Bipin Godhani, Walter Mascarenhas, Harsha D’Souza,Rashid Bolar, Loknand Arya Kenjar, K B Shetty and Vedathma vyasa swamji of Arya Samaj were present.