Mahatma Gandhi's second Rajghat on the Narmada coast in Madhya Pradesh got in the mud on Thursday. People used to come here to take inspiration of truth, nonviolence and peace.

Tell the Gandhians, after a few days, only water will be seen in the water. Administration has secured the remains of this Rajghat with the intention of making Gandhi memorial in the second place. Increasing the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam, Rajghat situated on the bank of Narmada river in the Badwani district of Madhya Pradesh was also going to drown.

The administration planned to shift this place to another place. For this work, the government has sanctioned only Rs 1.25 lakhs.

When IANS talked of breaking the 'Rajghat' from Gandhian thinker and poet Balkavi Bairagi, he became disturbed when he heard this. He said, "It was better to break Rajghat that it was allowed to be submerged. Now the ruins will be submerged which is not exactly the case. For those who have done this, I can say for them that God will give them spirituality. But this is not good. There was no objection if this Rajghat was submerged and to make the new Gandhi memorial in the second place."

Recalling the time of the construction of the Gandhi Sagar Dam on the Chambal river, Bairagi said, "Even in that round two hundred and fifty villages and many religious places were submerged, but no one had been broken. Why was Rajghat broken, it is beyond my understanding.''

At the same time, Barwani District Magistrate Ravi Nayak said that on which terrace the flesh of Mahatma Gandhi was kept, it was completely made of concrete. With the help of the JCB machine, the entire patch has been drawn, there is no damage to any kind. Now a temporary memorial will be built in the second place. There is a plan to build a grand memorial with mutual consent.

For lovers of Gandhian and Non-Violence, the 'Rajghat' of Badwani was not of less importance than the 'Rajghat' of Delhi, because the samadhi created here is not only Mahatma Gandhi, Kasturba Gandhi and his secretary Mahadev Desai's body-ashes was kept. Seeing JCB machine on this place on Thursday morning, some people started fluttering, but police managed to control them.

Among those who opposed running JCB on 'Rajghat' were Medha Patkar of the Narmada Bachao Andolan. Seeing the collapse of the inscription written by 'Hey Ram', she was upset. This was the place from where Medha was fighting for the people of Narmada Valley for the last three and a half decades.

The body-ashes of the three great dignitaries were brought here by Gandhian Kashinath Trivedi in January, 1965 and the Samadhi was completed on February 12, 1965. This place was named 'Rajghat'. Trivedi had dreamed of making this place a place of pilgrimage for Gandhians, so that people coming here could read the lessons of non-violence and peace sitting near Gandhi's shrine on the banks of Narmada. There were two inscriptions of marble at the site of the tomb. One was written 'Hey Ram' and on the other, 'Young India' was recorded on October 6, 1921 as part of Mahatma Gandhi's printed article.

It says, 'Our civilization, our culture and our Swaraj do not rely on our life, increasing our needs day by day, but on the enjoyment of our life, rather on controlling our needs, we rely on abandoned life.'

Gandhians think that the intention of Shivraj Sarkar is not to glorify this Rajghat in second place, only then the Narmada Valley Development Minister Lal Singh Arya of the state government said in the assembly that the new Gandhi memorial would be built near Kukra village. For this, an amount of Rs. one lakh 25022 has been deposited in the account of the District Collector of Badwani.

The question is arising that even the lesser amount of land will be co-ordinated?

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