Biswa Mangal Gou Gram Yatra reaches City

Biswa Mangal Gou Gram Yatra reaches City

BHUBANESWAR, Nov 10: thousands of people were on Tuesday gathered here at Rasulgarh Square to welcome the 108 days long Biswa Mangal Go Gram Yatra, which reached the capital early this morning. Chanting slokas and mantras, thousands joined the Yatra, which reached at Kasturaba High School Ground in Nayapalli area of the city. People gave standing ovation at Vani Vihar Square, Sani Temple Sauqre, Acharya Vihar Square and Jayadev Vihar Square.A meeting was held there, where several Sadhus and Santhas joined and demanded national animal status for cow and a countrywide ban on cow slaughtering and transportation of cows from one State to another state.Yatra committee national coordinator V Raghaban attends the meet and said that if we protect and conserve cow community, the present day farmer suicides could be avoidable. Working president of the Yatra and noted scientist Dr Nagendraji said the cow producing gobar gas amounting Rs 15,000 in a year. He said that the main objectives of the campaign are to declare cow as national animal, formation of law for the protection of cows, and development of its breed. Yatra committee state vice-president Arun K Panda, Lala Baba of Brahmagiri, Santosh Chaitnya Maharaj of Kantigadia, Mayadhar Behera of Gayatri Pariwar, Santha Rambalaka Das Maharaj, state coordinator BK Bhuyan, city coordinator Dilip Bisoi, were among those present.Earlier, the Yatra reached at Biramitrapur in Sundargarh on November 7 and passing through Rourkela, Rairakhol, Sambalpur, Angul , Dhenkanal, Cuttack, it reached Bhubaneswar on Tuesday morning. The Yatra left for Berhampur through Khurda.The Yatra, which spread the message of 'save cow and save village', had been kicked off will be flagged off on September 28, 2009, on Vijaya Dashami Day at Kurukhetra in Hariyana and will calumniated at Nagpur in 2010 on Makar Sankranti Day," . The Yatra would traverse some 20,000 kilometers, he added. Apart, from the main Yatra, 15,000 smaller Yatra including 150 in Orissa to traverse some 10 lakh kilometers during in 108 days while meetings will be held at 400 places across the country and signature of 50 crore people will be collected and submitted to the President of India seeking complete ban on cow slaughter, he said. A public meeting will be held here at Nayapalli here on November 10, where several senior Hindu saints including Sankaracharay Raghebendra Saraswati and religious preachers would join.