District Lok Samiti, Hazaribag organized a symposium as “Memories of Emergency 25 June 1975” at NBJK premises.Swarupchand Jain, JP movement agitator & senior advocate, chaired the event and called people’s awareness as most important in context of any threat to democratic values. While addressing the symposium, Girija Satish, an activist during the anti-emergency movement and currently National President of Lok Samiti, a non-political organization founded by JP, introduced the theme and briefed about the background of Emergency.He mentioned sufferings of common people at that time and said that still imperialist forces are involved in oppression of innocent people worldwide.He said that power politics divide people, some laws harass social workers and create undeclared emergency like situations.Expressing concern over centralization of wealth,Girija Satish said that conditions of real democracy are fulfilled only by Gram Swaraj and decentralization.
Gautam Sagar Rana,former MLA,criticized faulty impressions around feudal power struggle as a source of communal discord as this may lead to partition of India once again and stressed the need to preserve unity in diversity.Umesh Pratap,Social worker & journalist, appealed to follow civil obligation, to make stand against general trend and asked why no other Gandhi, JP, Subhash emerges from our society?
Professor Lalita Rana said that JP had envisioned a comprehensive change by establishing youth power, which is possible only on the basis of cultured education, character building and personality development. Shamsher Alam, Prof. Digambar Pandey, Bateshwar Mehta, Arvind Jha, Krishna Thakur have expressed their views on this occasion.
Shankar Rana conducted dais while Abhay Kumar proposed vote of thanks. Nearly 60 persons have participated in the symposium.
