Gandhian values key to peace and communal harmony: Minister

Minister in-charge of Mysuru district Yathindra Siddaramaiah and others after paying floral tributes to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi in Mysuru on Friday. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram

Minister in-charge of Mysuru district Yathindra Siddaramaiah on Friday said that peace and communal harmony could be ensured only when people imbibed Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of truth, non-violence and equal respect for all religions in their lives.

Speaking at a prayer meeting organised to mark Gandhi Jayanti at the Town Hall here, Dr. Yathindra said all religions lead to the same God and could be compared to rivers flowing into the same ocean. There should be no feeling of superiority or inferiority on the basis of religion, he said.