Mahatma Gandhi visited Belagavi in December 2024 and stayed for a little over a week. Khadi activists feel that the State government should organise celebrations to mark the centenary year of that visit.
Gandhi arrived in Belagavi to address the 39th all India session of the Congress on December 26 and 27 in 1924. This is the only session in which Gandhi was elected as Congress president.
Khadi crusader and chairman of the reception committee Gangadhar Rao Deshpande, known as Karnataka Kesari, had invited him.
