NEW DELHI: The government may push for a distinct session of the United Nations to mark the 150th delivery anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi starting on October 2, this year after the proposal discovered resonance on the first meeting of a committee set up to plan events associated with the occasion.
The recommendation, mooted by exterior affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and sponsored by leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad was once aired right through the meeting of the national committee to commemorate the anniversary on Wednesday.
The meeting also saw three opposition chief ministers suggesting that Mahatma Gandhi’s message of peace and non-violence should be reasserted right through the year-long celebrations in what some saw as a political message at a time when BJP and its combatants are buying and selling fees of abetting divisiveness. However, with the President chairing the meeting, the scope for politicking was once limited.
Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik urged ‘Ahimsa’ (non-violence) will have to be incorporated in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution. Quoting Gandhi, he said, “As lengthy as poverty exists, freedom is just a wooden loaf. To take away poverty is the greatest activity confronted by any government. This cannot be accomplished with out following Gandhiji’s theory of Ahimsa (Non-violence).”
J&Ok CM Mehbooba Mufti urged that the 150th anniversary be declared because the ‘Year of Peace and Reconciliation’ and the federal government will have to use internet and social media to interact with the youth and teach them in regards to the Mahatma’s fact and non-violence. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said the occasion will have to serve India to ship out a message of solidarity; that the rustic has risen above the variations of religion and caste.
PM Narendra Modi said the celebrations will have to no longer bask in tokenisms and will have to be a ‘karyanjali’ (call to action) reasonably than ‘shraddhanjali’. Among different tips, Swaraj said Bapu’s delivery anniversary celebrations can also be held throughout 193 nations with a standard programme. She also said conference centres being built by the Indian Mission in Africa might be named after Mahatma Gandhi.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, probably the most individuals of the committee, really helpful that a chair on human values in reminiscence of Gandhi be arrange in more than a few universities the world over. It was once also made up our minds that a smaller executive committee, chaired by the PM, might be formed and can take the arrangements for the commemoration, ahead.
The recommendation, mooted by exterior affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and sponsored by leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad was once aired right through the meeting of the national committee to commemorate the anniversary on Wednesday.
The meeting also saw three opposition chief ministers suggesting that Mahatma Gandhi’s message of peace and non-violence should be reasserted right through the year-long celebrations in what some saw as a political message at a time when BJP and its combatants are buying and selling fees of abetting divisiveness. However, with the President chairing the meeting, the scope for politicking was once limited.
Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik urged ‘Ahimsa’ (non-violence) will have to be incorporated in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution. Quoting Gandhi, he said, “As lengthy as poverty exists, freedom is just a wooden loaf. To take away poverty is the greatest activity confronted by any government. This cannot be accomplished with out following Gandhiji’s theory of Ahimsa (Non-violence).”
J&Ok CM Mehbooba Mufti urged that the 150th anniversary be declared because the ‘Year of Peace and Reconciliation’ and the federal government will have to use internet and social media to interact with the youth and teach them in regards to the Mahatma’s fact and non-violence. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said the occasion will have to serve India to ship out a message of solidarity; that the rustic has risen above the variations of religion and caste.
PM Narendra Modi said the celebrations will have to no longer bask in tokenisms and will have to be a ‘karyanjali’ (call to action) reasonably than ‘shraddhanjali’. Among different tips, Swaraj said Bapu’s delivery anniversary celebrations can also be held throughout 193 nations with a standard programme. She also said conference centres being built by the Indian Mission in Africa might be named after Mahatma Gandhi.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, probably the most individuals of the committee, really helpful that a chair on human values in reminiscence of Gandhi be arrange in more than a few universities the world over. It was once also made up our minds that a smaller executive committee, chaired by the PM, might be formed and can take the arrangements for the commemoration, ahead.
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