Women from various walks of life lined up to form a human wall stretching 73 km from the northern border of the district at Cheruthuruthy to the southern border at Pongam on Tuesday.
More than 3.5 lakh women participated in the wall for gender equality and to protect the values of renaissance.
In record books?
A team of Universal Record Forum observed the formation of the women’s wall to consider it for the world record. The wall was formed by 4 p.m. after a rehearsal at 3.45 p.m.
When Thrissur district panchayat president Mary Thomas stood as part of the wall at Cheruthuruthy, Geetha Gopi, MLA, participated at Pongam.
Various socio-political and cultural leaders became part of the wall.
The participants took an oath to protect gender equality and values of renaissance.
Public meetings followed at various centres. Prominent persons who participated in the wall included former Mayor R. Bindu, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Chairperson KPAC Lalitha, Parvathy Pavanan, P. Bhanumathy, Lalitha Lenin, T.A. Usha Kumari, Sreelatha Varma, actor Parvathy, District Collector T.V. Anupama, Additional District Magistrate C. Lathika, and Kerala Agricultural University Registrar P.S. Gethakutty.
Many leaders, including Ministers C. Ravindranath and V.S. Sunil Kumar, former speaker K. Radhakrishnan, former Minister K.P. Rajendran, Bishop Yohanon Mar Melitius of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Chaldean Syrian Church Bishops Mar Awgin Kuriakose and Yohanon Joseph expressed solidarity with the wall.
Mainstreaming
“Women had been sidelined from the mainstream society for long. We welcome the initiative to bring them to the mainstream,” Bishop Yohanon Mar Melitius of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Chaldean Syrian Church Bishops Mar Awgin Kuriakose said.