Mangalore: CPI (M) Calls for an End to 'Made Snana', Flags off Protest Walk
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (DV)
Mangalore, Dec 23: Communist Party of India CPI (M), Karnataka state committee held a protest against the practice of Made Snana (rolling over leftover meals in plantain leaves) in front of the DC's office here on Monday December 24.
A walk from Mangalore to Udupi for the same cause and to protest discrimination while serving mass meal at Udupi Sri Krishna Temple was also flagged off on the occasion by B Madhava, state secretary of CPI(M).
Inaugurating the programme, Sri Veerabhadra Chennamalla Swamiji of Nidumamidi Math said it is inhuman and barbaric to make the lower caste people to roll over the leftover meals eaten by upper caste Brahmins.
"Brahmins are trying to dominate the lower class people and boost slavery. Made Snana is illogical, unscientific, inhumane and against nature. It is an agenda to keep the lower class people in slavery. It is a system to oppress and suppress the lower castes or shudras," he said.
"The communist party activists should raise their voice against practices like Made Snana, animal sacrifice and other illogical rituals that promote slavery," he said, adding that the Supreme Court had ordered status quo but not given its verdict on the matter.
Chief guest P Srinivas Rao, central committee member of CPI (M) said, "Even after 65 years of Independence we live in an uncivilized society. We comrades should think of how to stop these evil practices in society. Swami Vivekananda said ‘to serve humanity is to serve god’. Hence we should serve humanity and not support to ill practices."
B Madhava, state secretary of CPI(M), secretary of Dakshina Kannada unit Maruthi Manpade and others were present.