SPL EDITION OF HIM UTTARAYINI RELEASED IN HONOUR OF THE FORMER PM A. B. VAJPAYEE

Several social organisations, journalists, writers and political activists paid their rich tributes to the former prime minister, Bharat Ratna a towering personality and a legend Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Press Club of India on 26th August and released a special edition dedicated to him at a seminar cum condolence meeting organised by HIM UTTARAYINI with articles and views of eminent writers and journalists on the late leaders unparalleled contribution to the society and the country at large across ideological confinement. Those who released the special edition of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s nobilty and works and spoke on the ocassion were Dr. Surya Prakash Semwal, Professor Rao of JNU, Sunil Negi, President, Uttarakhand Journalists Forum, poet Neeraj Bawri and Santosh, several journalists, Vinod Nautiyal, President Akhil Bhartiya Uttarakhand Mahasabha, Maan Singh, Vinod Dhaundiyal, editor, Alaknanda Magazine and Veerendra Juyal, of Sehyog, BJP, actor Vimal Uniyal and  theatee activist Vinod Rawat. The president of Uttarakhand Joirnalists Forum Sunil Negi said that the former prime minister was a credible opposition leader since Nehru’s era, an able prime minister and and eloquent speaker as well as an outstanding poet. He added: Vajpayeyi was above politics and a leader with outstanding political dexterity who had the capacity and guts to impress one and all by his impressive histrionics, oratorical skills and honest bent of mind even for his arch political adversaries. It was his unique and extraordinary skills as an exceptional politician that gave him the title of AZAAT SHATRU. A man with no enemy. Negi said that Atal Bihari Vajpayee was such a transpatent and liberal leader that he dod’nt hesitated to give the former PM Indira Gandhi the prestigious title of Godess Durga in 1971 when Bangladesh was carved out of Pakistan and exprwssed his strong reservation and opposition to the arbitrary felling of the Mosque in Ayodhya in 1994 despite his being in BJP. Very few leaders have this courage said Negi. All the speakers hailed Vajpayee as statesman and appealed to all to follow his ideals, principles nobility and immeasurable contributions for the development of the country and improving soci economic lot of the lowest sections of the society. The proveedings of the meeting were ably anchored by Dr. Surya Prakash Semwal, news editor of Hindi Daily, Punjab Kesari.