Anti-drug rally in Kannur attracts large crowd

Thousands of individuals joined the Proud Kerala’s Walk Against Drugs, a marathon led by Ramesh Chennithala, in Kannur on Friday (September 19, 2025).

People from all walks of life, together with cultural figures, college students, ladies and public staff, gathered in massive quantity since morning, making it a individuals’s motion towards narcotics.

Kannur Bishop Alex Vadakumthala, who flagged off the stroll, stated Kerala should unite towards drug habit that’s destroying the younger technology.

“The inventive potential of a technology is being destroyed on account of this habit. The struggle towards medication should start from each house,” Mr. Chennithala stated. The closing ceremony was inaugurated by author T. Padmanabhan with Proud Kerala Chairman Malayinkeezha Venugopal presiding.

People’s rebellion

Mr. Chennithala declared that the stroll represented a individuals’s rebellion towards drug habit. “This wrestle is not going to finish till drug habit is totally uprooted. This chemical habit can’t be eradicated with out public participation. In a state of affairs the place authorities techniques fail, widespread resistance is crucial,” he stated earlier than administering an anti-drug pledge to the members.

The Kannur occasion marked the ninth walkathon within the marketing campaign, which began in Kozhikode and has already handed by Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta, Kasaragod, Malappuram and Thrissur. The tenth walkathon can be held in Wayanad at 3:30 p.m.

Prominent spiritual and social leaders joined the occasion, together with Swami Amrita Kripanandapuri, Noushad Sakkafi Madakkara, DCC president Martin George, IUML District President Abdul Karim Cheleri, MLA Sajeev Joseph and others.