Mangalore, Dec 15: Thousands of people participated in the ‘Run for Unity’ organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel metal collection committee, Dakshina Kannada to mark the death anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on Sunday December 15.
The rally was flagged off at Dr Ambedkar circle and culminated at Nehru Maidan. MP Nalin Kumar Kateel and M Ganesh Rao of Karavali Group of Colleges jointly flagged off rally.
The event was organized in a bid to collect iron metal to build Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s 182 meter statue in Gujarat. Thousands of people from various organizations, college students and the public took part in the 2 km rally.
Speaking on the occasion Ganesh Rao said that we gathered here to salute Bharat Mata. The youth should take part in this kind of rally. By this the dream of former president A P J Abdul Kalam will come true.
Dr Y Bharath Shetty, convener of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel statue metal collection committee, DK, said “nearly 3,500 people registered their names before the rally, and today 1000 registered on the spot. We had expected 5,000 people and have almost reached that figure.”
MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik, MLC Monappa Bhandary, Prof Shastri, Pratap Simha Nayak, Yogish Bhat, Capt Brijesh Chowta, Pradeep Kumar Kalkura, M B Puranik, Kishor Kumar, Nagaraj Shetty, Ranjan Gowda and others took part in this marathon.
