Chronicle Reporter,Bhopal
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that Sant Shiromani Ravidas ji had envisioned a government where every person gets enough food and the welfare of all is ensured. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has established such a system of governance in India, in which arrangements have been made for every person to have meals, a concrete house with basic amenities, education and health.
CM Shivraj was inaugurating the Sant Ravidas Samarasata Yatra from Baidhan, Singrauli. CM offered prayers to Sant Ravidas after lighting the lamp and honoured Sant Bhaiyalal Bhagat, Ramashankar Das, Kanhaiya Lal, Sevadar Ramakant Das, Ramsajeevan Das and Premdas ji with angavastra, shawl and shriphal.
The Chief Minister also performed pujan of the Jal Kalash and Mrida Paatra. Sant Ravidas memorial will have 4 galleries Chief Minister Chouhan said that on August 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the memorial of Sant Ravidas in Sagar. This grand monument will be built in Nagar style, in which
his couplets and teachings will be engraved. The memorial will have four galleries.
Out of the four galleries, the life of Saint Ravidas will be in the first gallery, the Interpretation Center in the second, his philosophy and teachings of Ravidassia Panth in the third and his Poetry and Literature Library and Sangat Hall in the fourth. A Jalkund, accommodation for devotees and food hall will be built near the memorial.