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****BOXMLA Vasu refused to don the Gandhi cap at the inaugural ceremony of the seminar on Dasappa and Yashodara. He went on to head the Indian Railways, during which period he worked for Karnataka’s interest.”Women like Yashodara, Doresamy went on to add, were hard to find. They are slowly becoming redundant,” he said.Describing Dasappa and Yasahodara as a ‘rare tribe’ of people, Doreswamy said, “Dasappa was initially a state minister, before he moved to the Centre. “There is no life left in any of the Gandhi centres in the country. If we had ministers like Yashodara today, things would be better,” he said.Notwithstanding the many periods of abject poverty he faced, Dasappa gave himself wholly to social work, said Doreswamy..