"Named as Gandhi Karvan-e-Aman, Peace Parikrama will enter Jammu and Kashmir on December 7 and march across the length and breadth of the State during next 15 days to spread peace, communal harmony and unity," state president of Gandhi Global Family (GGF), an NGO, S P Verma told reporters here today.
The yatra for peace, which was flagged off from Kanyakumari in the memory of late Gandhian leader Nirmala Deshpande, is organised by the GGF- a federation of Gandhian Institutions, he said.
The aim is to promote peace, communal harmony, unity and create awareness to eradicate social evils in the society by organizing public interactions en-route in accordance with the principles of Mahatma Gandhi, he said.
One or two committed Gandhians from each State and Union Territory are participating in Parikrama which will pass through 16 states and one union territory and will reach back to Kanyakumari on January 30 next year after covering a distance of over 15,000 kilometres within a span of 108-days of touching the northern most part of India that is Kashmir, Verma said.
The Parikrama will enter the State on December 7 via Lakhanpur in Kathua district and proceed to other destinations for 15 days upto December 21, he said.
The yatra would touch most of the districts, towns and shrines, including Mata Vaishnodevi, Hazratbal, Chatti Badshahi, Shankracharya, Khir Bhawani, besides Dal lake to seek spiritual blessings, he added.
The Parikrama is dedicated to eminent Gandhian Didi-Nirmla Deshpande under the aegis of Gandhian Global Family to promote global peace and carry forward Gandhian Mission of Didi Deshpande to identify interested youth in Gandhian activities, to create awareness about education and eradication of social evils.
The Mission of Parikrama is to promote international understanding & cooperation by strengthening people to people contact for global peace. Since Gandhian ideology is acceptable everywhere in the world and people are following it and this ideology is our heritage. Verma appealed that Indians should join hands firstly to study it, secondly to adopt it and thirdly to preach it as a rising power through out the world. Let us make it a mission and our country become torch bearer to teach the lesson of peace and oneness to the world. We the Gandhian workers from the J&K state are grateful to Didi for organizing and guiding us during that darkness era of state. Her contributions particularly towards our state is tremendous from 1959-2008, when she first visited state with Vinobaji. Great souls never die. May almighty rest her soul in peace, he added.
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