Cycling Clubs of Mangaluru create voting awareness
Mangaluru: In a bid to create voting awareness among the general public, nearly 150 cyclists, majority of them belonging to Mangalore Cycling Club (MACC) and Mangalore Bicycle Club (MBC), on Sunday took out a bicycle rally in the city.
Flagging off a bicycle rally, District SVEEP Committee head and Zilla Panchayat CEO M.R. Ravi said that the rally will be passed through core Mangaluru region, where the voting percentage had been 65 in the last Assembly elections.
People need to be sensitised to come out of their houses and cast their votes, Mr. Ravi said.
SVEEP ambassador and actor Naveen D. Padil said that people need to be aware of their rights and campaigns like the bicycle rally would help in the matter.
Club members, general public and a few school students then pedalled their way through the central parts of the city.
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Neeraj Chopra wins Golden Spike meet
Ostrava (Czech Republic), Jun 24 (PTI): Indian javelin throw superstar Neeraj Chopra on Tuesday clinched the title at the Golden Spike meet in his maiden appearance here, his back-to-back win in a top-class competition.
Fresh from his Paris Diamond League win on June 20, Chopra emerged on top in a nine-man field here though with a modest effort of 85.29m in the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event.
He had skipped the last two editions of Golden Spike -- an event that his coach Jan Zelezny won nine times in a storied career -- due to fitness issues.
The 27-year-old Chopra has had an impressive season so far, having won his first Diamond League title in two years in Paris after also breaching the elusive 90m mark during his second place finish in Doha DL in May.
