Bantwal: Fourteen Couples enter Wedlock at Mass Wedding Ceremony
Report and Pics by Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network- Bantwal (RD/SP)
Bantwal, May 12: Fourteen couples were solemnized in marriage, at the mass wedding ceremony held at Geetanjali Kalyana Mantap, B C Road, here on Sunday May 10. The mass wedding ceremony was jointly organized by Nava Chetana Seva Trust and Dakshina Kannada unit of Karnataka Dalit Mahasabha, as part of the 119th birth anniversary of Bharata Ratna Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar.
The wedding rituals were held in the presence of Sri Basavalingamurti Swami of Muruga Rajendra Mutt, Sri Guru Devanand Swami of Guru Devadatta Mutt and Abdul Aziz Darimi of Kallega Jumma Masjid, Puttur. The ceremony was also attended by a large number of relatives, well wishers of brides and bridegrooms.
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Odiyoor Sri Guru Devanand Swami, in his message to the gathering, said that simple marriages are ideal to the society, members of which were burdened with financial problems. He called upon the people to work to remove the differences that exists between people belonging to different castes.
Entrepreneur Sesappa Kotian inaugurated the mass wedding ceremony.
Jan Seva Trust president Honnappa Kundar presided over the programme.
Former MP Janardhan Poojary, MLA B Ramanath Rai, Billava Maha Mandal spokesperson Harikrishna Bantwal, taluk panchayat president Chandrahas Shetty Bolantoor, municipal councilor B Yashoda, entrepreneur Jayanand Acharya, district Dalit Seva Samiti (DSS) president B K Sesappa, Satya Souramani Seva Samiti president Srinivas Arbigudde, Ambedkar Samaj Seva Sangh taluk president Satish Arala, Dalit Maha Sabha Mangalore taluk president Vishwanath Pakaje and others were present.
Fourteen couples from the taluks of Puttur, Bantwal, Beltangady, Mangalore, Hassan and others, entered into wedlock, at the mass wedding ceremony held here.