Udupi: BJP/VHP/Bajrang Dal donate paddy/bay to Nilavar cow shelter

By B Pundalika Marate
Bellevision Media Network

Udupi/Belle, 16 Oct 2016: BJP, VHP and Bajrang Dal units functioning in the limits of Belle gram panchayat donated 2 truckloads of bay, 4 tons of paddy to cow shelter at Nilavar, near here on Wednesday, October 12.

 

The activists collectively had planted the saplings in a disused farmland owned by Melmane Vasant Shetty during the onset of monsoon and it has yielded the bumper crop.  The local women, men, youth regardless of age and caste/creed/faith including activists volunteered to harvest and thrash the bay and separated the paddy in a daylong labor.

 

 

The promoter of cow shelter - Swami Vishwaprasanna of Pejavar mutt, Udupi was present on the occasion.

 

Kaup former MLA Lalaji R Mendon, BJP local committee president Rajendra Shetty, secretary Sudhakar Poojary, Belle gram panchayat member Gururaj Bhat, VHP president Jaya Serigar, Bajrang Dal convener Tilakraj, ZP former member Gerald Fernandes, TP former president Devdas Hebbar, Manipura gram panchayat vice president Karunakar Karkera, Shirva gram panchayat vice president Devdas Nayak, Udupi district Stree Shakti Federation president Dhanalaxmi, Deepak Moodubelle, Sachin Belle, Krishna Acharya, Vinod Castelino, Parasuram Bhat, Ivan D’Almeida, Harish Nayak, Melmane Vasant Shetty, heads of various social welfare and voluntary organizations, locals were present.

 

Swami Vishwaprasanna honored the caretaker of farm Ponkranna on the same occasion.

 

Belle gram panchayat former president Sasidar Wagle compered the programme.