Davangere: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi and fondly referred to as ‘Baapu’ by every Indian, is ironically remembered only once a year during ‘Gandhi Jayanthi’ on October 2.
However, there is a place where Mahatma Gandhi is revered as a ‘God’.
This ‘Gandhi temple’ is situated at the Harapanahalli Junior Government College.
Mahatma Gandhi had visited Harapanahalli in the year 1934, during the Dalit Movement, where he said that every Dalit was ‘God’s own child’.
While he was in Harapanahalli, the Mahatma stayed in a room at the college, where a two-ton monolithic statue carved out of stone now resides. The statue was made at a cost of Rs 25 lakhs.
The room is now known as a temple because, any student or outsider that enters this room, leaves his/her footwear outside and enters the room barefoot, to pray to the great soul.
