Daughters doing proud
V.P. Prabhakar
Gurpreet Kaur
Manushi Chhillar,
Gurpreet Kaur
and Garima
Yadav have
made the
country and
their state Haryana proud by
winning their respective titles in
beauty contests held in Toronto in
Canada and Mumbai.
A resident of CM's city of Karnal
Gurpeet Kaur won the title of Miss world Punjaban, for which the
competition was held in Toronto in
Canada. Resident of Sector 9, Karnal,
Gurpeet Kaur is student of BSc final
in D.A.V. College for women. She
was always encouraged by her
family for taking part in various
contests and they were sure that she
would excel some day. Gurpert Kaur
was honoured with Gold Crown and
6000 Canadian dollars.
Garima Yadav
Gurpreet Kaur had earlier won
the title of Miss Punjaban. When she
reached her house on November 21,
2017, her family members
welcomed her with sweets and also
gave her 'Ashirvad' by embracing
her.
A daughter of Surhell village in
Rewari, Garima Yadav, won the title
of India's Miss Charming Face 2017
defeating 20 other girls from other
states in the competition held in
Mumbai.
After getting school education in the village, she did B.A. (Arts) and
M.A. (Economics) from St. Stephen's
College, Delhi. She came to know
about India's Miss Charming Face
2017 contest from Promila Kapoor,
mother of her friend, Arpana. She
encouraged her to take part in the
audition of this contest.
Garima Yadav was selected in
2014 as Air Force flying Officer but she left her job to prepare for the
UPSC examination.
Record of debates
The Punjab Vidhan Sabha on
December 5, 2017 got the record
pertaining to the debates of the
legislative assembly of the
combined Punjab (East and West)
before the India-Pakistan partition.
Punjab Finance Minister
Manpreet Singh Badal, after
procuring photo copies of these
record form Pakistan, handed them
to Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana K.P.
Singh on December 5, 2017. The
record includes 43 volumes from
March 23, 1937 to March 3, 1947.
These historical documents would be kept in the Vidhan Sabha library.
The Speaker said that before
Independence the legislative
assembly was representing the people of combined Punjab and the
documents pertaining to the
legislative debates have great
historical importance. This record
would be helpful to the researchers
interested in studying various fields
of combined Punjab. These debate
records would also provide a
glimpse of circumstances in an
undivided India.
Badal said that photocopies of
the procured record would also be
handed over to the Haryana Vidhan
Sabha and the National Archives of
India.