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Issue:June' 2019

CHANDIGARH DIARY

Roadmap for ‘Mission-75’

V.P. Prabhakar

Union home minister and BJP president Amit Shah holds a meeting
with BJP leaders of Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand ahead of
Assembly elections, at party office in New Delhi.
Encouraged by its impressive performance in the recent Lok Sabha elections, the Haryana BJP on June 9 discussed the roadmap for “Mission-75” for the state Assembly elections due in October this year.
The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal Khattar, attended the meeting that BJP President and Union Home Minister, Mr Amit Shah, chaired to discuss preparations for the assembly poll.
The Chief Minister said the BJP has set the target to win 75 assembly seats out of 90 in the state. “To a c h i e v e M i s s i o n - 7 5 , work will be done in a p r e s c r i b e d schedule”, he added.

Amit Shah was in Rohtak on June 21 on the occasion of International Yoga Day.

Sources said the BJP decided to gear up the party cadre for Mission-75 by holding meetings from July 1 to10. The party resolved to replicate the the success of the Lok Sabha elections through over three lakh “panna pramukhs” (voter list page in-charges) at nearly 20,000 polling booths across the state for the coming elections.

In the recent Lok Sabha elections, the BJP recorded its best ever performance by winning all 10 seats in Haryana. The party also registered a victory in 79 of the 90 assembly segments. In the last assembly elections, the party had won 47 of the 90 seats in the state and formed the government on its own for the first time in Haryana.

Besides Shah and Khattar, prominent among those who attended the meeting included general secretary (organization) Ram Lal, Union Minister Rao Inderejit Singh, Krishan Lal Gurjar and Rattan Lal Kataria, state ministers Ram Bilas Sharma, Capt Abhimanyu and Om Prakash Dhankar, Rajya Sabha member Birender Singh, state BJP chief Subash Barala, Karnal MP and general secretary Sanjay Bhatia, Haryana g e n e r a l s e c r e t a r y (organization) Suresh Bhatia and state g e n e r a l s e c r e t a r i e s Sandeep Joshi and Ved Pal.

A d d r e s s i n g party workers in Faridabad earlier, the Chief Minister said the BJP g o v e r n m e n t fulfilled the responsibility to meet the hopes and aspirations of the people. The state government developed all the regions, sections and castes equally and fulfilled the "Haryana Ek-Haryani Ek" resolve.

Union Minister Smriti Irani on June 9 held a meeting with the Chief Minister on the issues related to women's welfare in the state.

The Chief Minister told the media, “After taking charge as the Woman and Child Development Minister, her first meeting on June 9 took place with me.” She appreciated the state’s efforts in the field of women education and said, “Some key decisions were taken and directives issued regarding the welfare of women and children in Haryana.

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Mr Kamal Arora, Chairman of the Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi, was happy to release a book of his student, Dr Sangeeta Chaudhary, tilted Kazi Nazrul Islam Ke Navrang at a function organized by the Readers and Writers Society of India (KWSI), Chandigarh, in association with T.S. Central State Library, Sector 17, Chandigarh.
He said the book was in Hindi and "I hope it will become quite popular in North India where very few people know about Kazi Nazrul Islam".

Kazi Nazrul Islam is a much respected legendary figure born in India in 1899, now West Bengal. He spent his last four years - -- 1972 to 1976 ---in Bangladesh. Dr I. D. Singh, founder President of the RWSI, says in his Foreword to the book that a multitalented genius, Nazrul Islam contributed extensively to literature, music, drama and poetry.

He wrote 4000 songs, was a music director for a number of Bengali films. A journalist, a revolutionary for a humanist, a political and social activist, he was ivist, he was against all kinds of bigotry and oppression.

He created the first Bengali gazals. In recognition of his remarkable contribution, in 1960, the Indian government awarded him the Padam Bhushan. The Bangladesh government conferred on him the status of the National Poet in 1972. In 1974, Dhaka University awarded him an honorary D.Litt.

Dr ID Singh pointed out, “The book in your hands is specific about Nazrul’s revival of Indian classical music ragas that had nearly vanished with the passage of time. With his ingenuity, he created ragas by giving them new ‘swars’ (tunes). Now these are so popular among performers and audience."

Dr Sangeeta Chaoudhary is a versatile performing artist besides being the author of three books on music which were well received by readers. She is the recipient of about 26 awards, six of these being “Nazrul Awards” from different institutions.

Dr Sangeeta Choudhary is making efforts to make the people of this area aware of the music of Bengal.