Prayagraj, 25 April

(HS): Speaking

as the chief guest at the program organized at the statue site of freedom

fighter and former Chief Minister Late Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna on the occasion

of his 107th birth anniversary, Justice Gautam Chaudhary said that Late

Bahuguna had participated in the freedom movement since 1942 and along with

that, till the end of his life, he considered national interest as his

religion. He did not compromise with his principles and if he did, he did so in

the national interest. On his birth anniversary, a function was organized by

Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Smriti Samiti at his statue site, in which the lamp was

lit by Late Bahuguna's son Shekhar Bahuguna, daughter-in-law Vinita Bahuguna,

son-in-law PC Joshi, granddaughter Uttara Bahuguna. The program was conducted

by District President Sant Prasad Pandey. Leaders of various political parties,

teachers from the education world and officials of the Chamber of Commerce paid

floral tribute to Bahuguna ji. Former MP Ramesh Dwivedi, who attended the

program, said that late Bahuguna was an ideal man in politics and the former MP

expressed his views about his principles. Those who paid floral tribute

included Sharad Upadhyay, Jaiswal Sabha President Padum Jaiswal, Principal

Rajiv Darbari, Principal Mani Shankar Dwivedi, Principal Arun Pratap Singh,

Sudha Tripathi and Shailaja Tripathi from Inner Wheel Club, Suresh Verma, Vijay

Mishra Advocate, Manu Kakkar Advocate, Vivekanand Sharma Advocate, Nayan

Kushwaha, Arun Pathak, Rakesh Srivastava, Umashankar Shukla, Padmadhar Dwivedi,

Anupam Krishna Dwivedi, Vimal Mehrotra, Sardar Nanak Singh, Brijesh Tiwari,

Lalu Mittal, Rakesh Sharma, Kamlesh Mishra, Sunil Das and Ram Das, Dharmaraj

Pandey, Manish Gupta and hundreds of others were present.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi