Sarva Seva Sangh, a Gandhian organisation whose twelve buildings were demolished by the Varanasi administration in an anti-encroachment drive last month, will start a month-long ‘Virasat Bachao Nyay Yatra’ in Varanasi asking the State government to apologise for the demolition.
Gandhian activists from across the country will participate in the yatra, set to commence from Vinoba Bhave’s birth anniversary on September 11 and going up to Jayaprakash Narayan’s birth anniversary on October 11. One of the questions that the organisation intends to pose to the government is whether it considers leaders like J.P. and Vinoba Bhave to have committed fraud by taking land and establishing the institute in Varanasi in the 1960s.
“We will start the foot march in Varanasi on Vinoba Bhave’s birth anniversary dated September 11 and will end on October 11, JP’s birth anniversary. It is named as ‘Virasat Bachao Nyay Yatra’, as the government by taking the step of demolishing the buildings, declaring our land papers as illegal in a direct way said that icons like Vinoba ji and JP ji committed a fraud. We demand an apology,” said Ram Dhiraj, coordinator of the Sarva Seva Sangh.
