Prayagraj: The foot march ‘Ek Kadam Gandhi’, which started from Banaras Rajghat with the message of Gandhi’s thoughts, reached Prayagraj city on Wednesday. Yatra was given an unprecedented welcome by the senior citizens and prominent people of the city at Alopi Bagh All India Sardar Patel Seva Sansthan. Before that, this padyatra started from Bala Prasad Kushwaha Degree College, Balrampur at 7:00 am. On moving ahead, Nehru Gram Bharti Sansthan welcomed the padyatris with lunch and a halt. The Vice Chancellor of the Sansthan, Manish Mishra, said that we are very happy to welcome the padyatris from about 16 states across the country in this padyatra, who have set out in the country carrying the message of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
In this padayatra, Sarva Seva Sangh President Chandanpal along with Uttar Pradesh Sarvodaya Mandal President Ram Dhiraj Bhai represented 16 states of the country – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and West Bengal.
The prominent participants today included: Bhupesh Bhushan (Youth Cell Convenor), Mihir Pratap Das (Orissa Sarvodaya Mandal President), Shyamdhar Tiwari (Satyameva Jayate), Satish Maratha (Haryana), Sarita Behen (Vinoba Ashram, Gagoda), Sachin (National Youth Organization), Pavithran (Sarvodaya Mandal Treasurer), Diwakar, A. R. Palanisamy, Srinivasan (Tamil Nadu), Dr. Sukhchandra Jha, Ankur Shashwat (Jharkhand), Jiten Nandi, Kajal Mukherjee (West Bengal), Vidyadhar, Jokhan Yadav, Sister Florine, Nidhi, Siraj Ahmed, Antaryami Baral, Jagdish Kumar (Former State Convenor, Rajasthan), Sanjay (Jai Kisan Andolan), T.K. Sinha, Anokhlal, Sanjay Kumar, Sanjeev Singh, Satender Singh, Rabia Begum, Gaurav Purohit, Vivek Yadav, Vivek Mishra, Saurabh Tripathi, Indu Pandey, Asma Adivasi, Diwakar Singh, Vikas Kumar, Ishwarchandra (social worker), Bhopal Sarvodaya Mandal secretaries Ankit Mishra and Mohan Dixit, Rajit Dwivedi from Vidisha, Ramdhiraj (Uttar Pradesh Sarvodaya Mandal president), Arvind Kushwaha and Arvind Anjum (Sarva Seva Sangh minister) etc. 9 October – Alopi Bagh to Neem Ka Ped Chowk at 7:00 am, Khusro Bagh at 11:30 am, High Court Patthar Church protest site at 1:00 pm, afternoon break for the marchers, again Government Press Square at 3:30 pm, Dayanand Marg Dhobi Ghat Square Subhash Square at 5:00 pm, Shaheedwal Hanuman Mandir Square Chandrashekhar Azad Park at 5:30 pm, Balsan Square Anand Bhawan Bank Road Square at 6:00 pm.