Neglected for long, the lane connecting the settlements of Dalits and Lingayats in Badanavalu was restored and christened “Bharat Jodo Road” on the occasion of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the village for Gandhi Jayanthi on Sunday.
Mr. Gandhi, who took a break from his Bharat Jodo yatra that has reached Mysuru, visited the Khadi Gramudyog Centre at Badanavalu that had been visited by Mahatma Gandhi in 1927 as well as 1932. Apart from visiting the khadi weaving and spinning centres at Badanavalu, Mr. Gandhi and the Congress leaders also participated in Shramadaan activities that included the reconstruction of the lane connecting the two different sections of the society that had been abandoned after bloody clashes between them about three decades ago.
Mr. Gandhi also laid a couple of interlocking tiles on the lane on Sunday to complete the reconstruction of the road between the two settlements and throw it open.
