Vokkaligara Mud Field Sports Meet Organized in Gonikoppal

Jul. 13: As part of Kempegowda Jayanti, a mud field sports meet was held in collaboration with Vokkaligara Yuva Vedike and Hathur Vokkaligara Sangha at Doddamane Thammaiah's field near Mahadeshwara Temple in Hathur.

Women, children and men participated in various sports including running, rope wrestling, volleyball, throwball and played in mud. Many dignitaries including Madikeri constituency MLA Dr. Mantar Gowda and State Vokkaligara Sangha Executive President Harapalli Ravindra witnessed the festivities at the sports meet. Thousands of Vokkaliga community members from various places including Kotekoppa, Kakotuparambu, Kannangala-Ontiyagadi, Kaikeri, Gottada, Kalathmadu Maithadi, Ammatthi, Chennangi, Thitimathi, Devapura, Seegethodu, Gonikoppa, Ponnampet-Kiruguru, Kothur, Kutta Poojekallu, Balele, Nittur Karmadu, Kottageri, Virajpet Maggula village participated.

Sports are cooperative for unity: Mantar

Madikeri constituency MLA Dr. Mantar Gowda participated in the program and spoke and said that sports are cooperative for unity of community members. In this regard, the Vokkaliga community is commendable for its efforts to bring community members together by organizing the Kesarugadde Sports Festival. Efforts should be made every year for the unity of community members. He said that rural sports should be given more encouragement.

Let it be held every year: Harapalli Ravindra

State Vokkaligara Sangha Executive President Harapalli Ravindra said that only sports have the power to unite the community. Therefore, various sports festivals should be held every year, cooperation should be achieved with the unity of the community, and necessary cooperation should be provided for the construction of the Vokkaligara community's own building. He hoped that the sports festival should be held every year by the Vokkaligara society.

Vokkaligara Yuva Vedike President V.J. Madhusudhan said that the 5th year Vokkaligara Kesarugadde Sports Festival has been a success beyond expectations. 

He said that the rural beauty has been seen due to the great cooperation and participation of the community.

In a program held under the chairmanship of the sports festival president Hanchinamane D. Srinivas, Vokkaligara Yuva Vedike President V.G. Madhusudhan Hathur village coffee grower Doddamane Keerthi Kiran, Hathur Vokkaligara Sangha President H.G. Anil Kumar, place donors D.E. Thimmaiah, coffee grower Doddamane A. Chandrashekhar, Doddamane A. Gopalakrishna, H.M. Gopala Krishna, V.S. Ramachandra, V.M. Ashok Kumar, V.S. Surendra, V.R. Ramesh, D.E. Vitthal, Hanchinamane Jayalakshmi Raju, Hanchinamane Sushila Ramakrishna, and others participated. Doddamane Theertha Manjunath welcomed the gathering, and Chandana Manjunath delivered the speech and expressed his vote of thanks. - H.K. Jagadish

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