By TCN News,
Ayodhya: With the sole purpose of strengthening communal harmony and peace in the country, a yatra will be taken out from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on 2nd October – the birthday of prophet of nonviolence Mahatma Gandhi. Covering over thousand kilometers the yatra to be led by noted peace activist Yugal Kishore Shastri, will reach Bodhgaya, the abode of another prophet of peace Mahatma Buddha in Bihar on 11th October.
“To promote communal harmony, co-existence, tolerance, human unity and peace in the country, this public contact yatra will be taken out under the leadership of eminent peace activist Yugal Kishore Shastri,” reads a pamphlet from the organizers of the yatra – The India Harmony Foundation, New Delhi, Sarvadharma Sadbhav Kendra (Trust), New Delhi and Asha Parivar, Varanasi. The Hindu cleric Shastri, who has his own math at stone’s throw from the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya, had witnessed the pulling down of Babri Masjid by Hindu extremists and had given shelter to many mediapersons who were attacked by those extremists. He has been working for peace and communal harmony for past 30 years.
Insaan ka Insaan se ho Bhaichara, Yahi Paigham Hamara will be the moving mantra and slogan of the participants of the yatra named Manavta Ekta Yatra.
Before culminating in Patna, the state capital of Bihar, the yatra would have touched several districts in UP and Bihar including Azamgarh, Vaishali in UP and Gaya and Vaishali in Bihar.