A #Symposium on 150th Birth Anniversay of #MahatmaGandhi

02 October 2018, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): NBJK and Hazaribag district Lok Samiti have celebrated 150^th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi to remember Father of the Nation benevolently. A symposium was organized on this occasion and Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK & National Lok samiti) introduced about importance of the day before an audience of more than 100 women, men & children from nearby villages. He said that Mahatma Gandhi is such a towering personality who deserves to be called much more than the father of the nation or a leader of freedom movement merely. He accepted the challenge to live with values and evolved many ideas like Sarvodaya, Trusteeship to establish socio-economic justice in India, NBJK president opined. Gandhiji outlined about a model life for any individual as well as for a nation and campaigned against social evils with focus upon women & untouchables, he explained. Mr. Girija said that there is no way except Gandhi, if we want to make a better world.

Mr. Bateshwar Mehta (political leader) has branded Gandhi as the symbol of truth, non-violence and sanitation who represented our humanity. Mr. Arvind Jha (advocate) talked about the empathy Gandhi Jee felt for all, also he demanded for a Gandhi Study Center at Vinoba Bhawe University in Hazaribag.  Mr. Shamsher Alam (businessman) identified Gandhi with India and insisted to strengthen his ideology. Mr. Nandlal Saw (ex-mukhiya, Oriya) mentioned about hurdles with honesty and appealed to support genuine social workers. Prof. K. P. Sharma (retd. head, PG dept. of Pol. Sc., VBU) praised Mahatma Gandhi for developing a philosophy after practice only to bring change and guided for a new social order with dignity of labour, service & self-reliance. Dr. Prasanna Mishra (Bureau Chief, Hindustan) called Gandhi Jee an all time global personality and put forth the value of self-examination. Mr. Awdhesh Pandey (social worker) appealed for communal harmony, an all time issue for Gandhiji. Mr. Arjun Yadav (political leader) requested educated people to be responsible and asked about the gap between their words & actions. Md. Islam Khan (ex-defence officer) described him as a worshiper of humanity who won with love and needs to be followed. Md. Khalid (Murda Kalyan Samiti) termed love and non-violence as eternal legacy from Gandhi.

From the chair, Prof. R. S. Ambashtha (ex-head, PG dept. of Philosophy, VBU) said that Mahatma Gandhi perceives human life as a whole and aims for inner change possible through love only. Mr. Shankar Rana (Coordinator, Jharkhand State Lok Samiti) anchored the dais and thanked all at the end. The meeting was participated by the people from villages like Amrit Nagar, Oriya, Singhani, Nutan Nagar, Baihri, Rola etc.