Uttarakhand Governor Dr Aziz Qureshi inaugurated the two-day long seminar organised by Rotary International in Dehradun on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, he said that fundamentalists of all religions need to understand that hunger, pain, poverty and tears have no religion. He called on Rotarians to work towards building a society which did not have weaknesses like poverty, hunger, illiteracy and inequality. “A campaign for this should be announced during this seminar,” he said.
Dr Qureshi appealed to lay the foundation of friendly relations between India and Pakistan.
Only humanitarian powers could succeed in fighting against terrorist forces. For the past three decades, Rotary had been working for the welfare of the common man.
It has been curing the pain of the masses. Rotary had played an appreciable role in helping the disaster-affected people in Uttarakhand in June 2013 through relief and rescue efforts and rehabilitation work. Rotarians from Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, UP, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh, Pakistan and Uganda were present at the Rotary International District 3080 Seminar.
At the seminar, the Governor released the souvenir and honored Pandit Budh Ram who has been working to protect the environment in Himachal Pradesh.
Rotarians Rakesh Aggarwal, Arun Sharma, Shaju Peter, Raja Sabu, Dr S Farooq and Mohd Faiz Kidwai (from Pakistan) also expressed
their views.