Mangaluru, Sep.2: MLA Vedavyasa Kamath addressed the volunteers of Episcopal Ordination programme and unveiled the badges on Sunday 2 September at Rosario Cultural hall
Addressing the volunteers he said, God has given an opportunity to all volunteers to witness the great event. When we commit mistakes we go to priest and he has right to forgive our sins. When we commit mistakes against the priest or bishop there is no contrition for it.
Kamath requested all volunteers to work hard and make the event a great success. He promised his full cooperation to the program. He wished well to the new bishop as well the outgoing bishop.
On this occasion Vedavyasa Kamath unveiled the badges of the volunteers which will be worn on 15 September.
Bishop appreciated the good will of MLA and said “You are ours and we are yours". As MLA said that whatever expected of him he would do, must the attitude of every volunteer said bishop. The success of the program depends on the volunteers. You have freely come forward to render your service that will be rewarded by God and Our Lady of Rosary bishop encouraged around 650 volunteers.
After the formal program the concerned persons gave instructions and guidelines to volunteers.
Rev Dr. Aloysius Paul D' Souza, the Apostolic Administrator, Vedavyasa Kamath MLA, Mangalore South, Fr J.B Crasta, Chief Coordinator, Fr. Rupesh Madtha , Sushil Noronha were present on the dais
Fr Victor Vijay Lobo PRO of the diocese, Joylus D'Souza BJP Dist. Minority President, Gladwin H. D Silva BJP Minority President Mangalore City South, Lateef Corporator, the conveners and members of various committees were present.
Fr J. B Crasta led the prayer, Sushil Noronha welcomed the gathering, Fr Rupesh Madtha proposed vote of thanks, Fr Flavian Lobo compared the program
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New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall standing in the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the UPA took steps to weaken that wall but not to the extent it should have.
Addressing the 'Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan', Gandhi also referred to the function held on Constitution Day in Parliament and said that it is his guarantee, that "Modi has not read" the Constitution.
"If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it," Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country's whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs and Modi and the RSS are strengthening that wall by "adding cement to it".
"Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food...those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have," Gandhi said.
"However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete," the former Congress president said.
Gandhi said a caste survey being carried out in Telangana is a historic step and the Congress will do the same wherever it comes to power.