Biswa Mangal Go Gram Rath Yatra kicks off in city

BHUBANESWAR: Biswa Mangal Go Gram Rath Yatra, a national campaign on Sunday kicked off here at Lingaraj Temple. Organising committee spokesman Ravi Narayan Panda said that in the first day, the Rath traversed from Lingaraj Temple and reached Bargarh Brit Colony while passing through Punama Gate, Bhima Tangi, Sundarpada, Samantarapur, Ravi Talkies Square, Bhaskareswar Temple, the Rath would traverse other parts of the city till November 10 and join the main Rath, which was kicked off on Vijaya Dasami Day at Kurukhetra in Hariyana. City Yatra committee coordinator Prafulla Bisoi, RSS Zilla Karyabaha Rajesh Ray, Bebastha Pramukha Umakanta Bhai, Jagannath Patnaik, Kuna Bhai, Indramani Sendha and several others were present. The main will reach Orissa on November 7. The main Rath of the Yatra would stay in Orissa for four days from November 7 to 10. It will arrive at Rourkela on November 7 from Ranchi and reach Sambalpur on November 8 Cuttack on 9 and on 10, it will be at Berhampur and on 11, it would leave for Visakhapatnam. The 108 days long Yatra is demanding national animal status for cow and asked the Centre as well as respective States Government to impose a complete ban on cow slaughtering. 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. 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.