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Hukkeri, a quaint municipality connected the Karnataka-Maharashtra borderline successful Belagavi district, witnessed a unsocial matrimony connected February 8.
Mehboob Hasan Naikwadi, a retired KSRTC driver, and his woman Noor Jahan, organised the matrimony of their adopted lad Somashekar Pujeri with Poonam. The wedding was organised arsenic per Veerashaiva Lingayat rituals, with a household person participating successful spiritual rituals. The Naikwadis were lasting connected the by-lanes, welcoming guests and overseeing different arrangements.
Community leaders similar Basavaprabhu Vantamuri and others participated with joy. In a little speech, Mr. Vantamuri said the Naikwadis’ enactment is simply a exemplary for the society, which has been witnessing spurts successful incidents of communal violence.
The Naikwadi mates adopted Somashekar and his younger member Vasant 20 years agone erstwhile the children were orphaned. Their parents died successful a roadworthy mishap and they had nary contiguous relatives.
Mr. Naikwadi, was a person of Shivanand Kadayya Pujeri, the begetter of these children. He and his friends tried to hunt for immoderate relatives who could instrumentality attraction of them, but the efforts were successful vain. Mr. Naikwadi and his woman adopted them by volition. By that time, the Naikwadi mates had children of his own, yet raised the 2 destitute children and gave them the indispensable acquisition and different benefits.
Somashekar, a BSc graduate, is an worker astatine an aviation institution successful Belagavi. When helium reached marriageable age, the Naikwadi mates began looking for alliances. Following a reference, they went to Tanwad, a colony successful Gadhinglaj taluk successful Maharashtra, on with a delegation of household friends from Hukkeri. Poonam comes from a Veerashaiva Lingayat family.
Mr. Naikwadi, who is successful his 70s and does not person galore assets successful his name, told reporters successful Hukkeri that helium is looking guardant to the wedding of Vasant, his different adopted son. “I bash not deliberation determination is thing peculiar successful what my woman and I person done. I judge that each the radical successful this state are brothers and sisters. I americium blessed that these children grew up successful my house, got educated, and recovered jobs connected their own. I volition permission this world, satisfied that I person done my job,’’ helium said.
