With chief Minister Narendra Modi set to return here from Geneva on Saturday night along with the urns containing the ashes of legendary freedom fighter of Shyamji Krishna Varma and wife Bhanumati, Gujarat is all set to witness the 2000 Km-long 'Veeranjali yatra' from Mumbai to Mandavi in Kutch District from Sunday reports PTI.
The state government has directed the administration of 17 districts through which the Yatra will pass, to gear up for the same. The procession will end in the coastal town of Mandavi in Kutch District where he was born. The urns, containing the last remains of the late Varma in 1930, will be finally placed in a memorial at his erstwhile residence.
Modi will arrive in Mumbai by a British Airways flight from Geneva where he was handed over the 'asthi kalash' of the late Verma and his wife on Friday. On arrival I Mumbai, the urns will be received by the Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi and BJP spokesman and General Secretary Pramod Mahajan, besides office bearers of the 'Shyamji Krishna Varma Smarak Foundation' and leaders.
After a day-long series of programmes
in Mumbai, the urns will be taken in a procession on its 1990 KM-long journey
from Mumbai to Mandavi over the next 11 days.