CREATOR’S DAY OF THE NATIONAL SONG ‘VANDE MATARAM’ OBSERVED AT SADQI

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Besides celebrating the grand festival of Diwali at the international Sadki JCP on the India-Pakistan border, the 151st creator’s day of the national song “Vande Mataram” was also observed. Giving this information, Border Area Development Front president Liladhar Sharma said that during the retreat ceremony, lamps were lit by BSF jawans and officers, and they wished each other a happy Diwali.

On this occasion, Advocate Kameshwar Gumber, Dr. Rameshwar Gumber, Liladhar Sharma, Dr. Sandeep Goyal of Goyal Homeopathy Hospital, Dr. Mohit Madhukar Goyal from AIMS Hospital, Bathinda, Dr. Kirti Goyal (surgeon), Dr. Amandeep Kaur, Professor of Medicine, Advocate Kaushima Arora, and Dr. Shilvi Gumber together presented sweets to the BSF jawans and officers and wished them a happy Diwali.

At the time of the retreat ceremony, the 151st creator’s day was observed by chanting the national song “Vande Mataram,” composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, on November 7, 1876. Chattopadhyay was a great novelist and poet, who gave India its national song Vande Mataram personifying India as a mother Goddess to inspire the activists during the Indian Independence Movement.