New Delhi, July 27 -- The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday flagged off an 11-member team to Varanasi to participate in the party's Ravidas Kalash Vandan Abhiyan, an outreach campaign being organised ahead of the 650th birth anniversary of Bhakti Movement saint and poet Ravidas, which will be celebrated next year.
The team will take part in a programme scheduled in Varanasi on July 29, where BJP National President Nitin Nabin is expected to hand over urns containing sacred soil from Ravidas' birthplace to party workers from across the country. According to the BJP, the soil will subsequently be carried to different states through a Kalash Yatra to spread the saint's message of social harmony.
Delhi BJP president Har...