The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Andhra Pradesh unit, on Sunday sent by a special train the soil collected from across the State to New Delhi, where it will be used in the Amrita Vanam unity garden.
Earlier in the day, party State president Daggubati Purandeswari flagged off at C.V. Reddy Charities a sobha yatra of about 900 BJP workers carrying kalasas (urns) containing the soil collected from 11,000 villages in the State.
Over the past one month, the BJP leaders were visiting villages to collect the soil samples. The State has 929 mandals, and a kalasa from each mandal will reach Delhi, she said.
BJP national secretary Y. Satya Kumar, former MLC P.V.N. Madhav, programme in-charge Vetukuri Suryanarayana Raju and others were present.
The unity garden will be created using the soil brought from across the country and would symbolise the unity and shared heritage of the country. The announcement was made during the ‘Meri Maati, Mera Desh’ campaign, which paid tribute to those who sacrificed their lives for the nation.
