CANACONA
‘Tribal Pride Day’ and ‘Tribal Folk Dance Festival’ as part of Birth-Anniversary celebrations on Bhagwan Birsa Munda is organized while the awareness yatra (rally) of the Tribal Leader has begun at Khotigao on Saturday.
The Tribal Pride Day and Tribal Folk Dance Festival were inaugurated and the rally was later flagged-off by Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar in the presence of Social Welfare Minister Subhash Phaldessai, Sanvordem MLA Ganesh Gaonkar, Ex-MLA Damodar Naik and others.
Speaking on the occasion, Tawadkar said, “Tribal community leader Birsa Munda is one amongst the many. It is not for anything that Birsa Munda is God of tribal society. He is for the fights he had for the rights of t ribal community and their land ownership. Birsa Munda got such success in 25 years of life. That is why in the coming days, a grand memorial of Birsa Munda will be built, along with that of late Dilip Velip and Mangesh Gaonkar, the tribal youths who were killed in UTAA’s Balli agitation. I am trying my best to make a proper description of Mangesh Gaonkar and Dilip Velip’s sacrifice for the Tribal Commuity/Society.”
