Vice-Minister Bekešius attends ceremony of unveiling of monument to Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach
On 2 October, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Mantvydas Bekešius attended a ceremony of unveiling of the monument to the leader of India’s independence movement Mahatma Gandhi and his Litvak friend Hermann Kallenbach in Rusnė.
The ceremony commemorated the 146th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and marked his little known friendship with Hermann Kallenbach, a Litvak from Lithuania Minor.
The Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevičius, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Mantvydas Bekešius, India’s Minister of State for Agriculture Shri Mohanbhai Kundariya, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Tushar Gandhi and other guests from Lithuania, India and Israel attended the ceremony.
The Foreign Vice-Minister gave gifts of gratitude to guests and sponsors who helped to turn this nice idea into a reality, and to relatives of Gandhi and Kallenbach.
The monument to Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach by sculptor Romas Kvintas was erected on the bank of the River Rusnė, supposedly on the site of the former synagogue.
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