Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath watched the cultural talents of children and distributed certificates to them in the programme of Kashi Sansad Sanskritik Mahotsav (KSSM) organised in the Divisional Auditorium here on Monday evening during his one-day visit when the CM was in the city to inspect the preparations for the proposed visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his parliamentary constituency on September 23. During his visit, the PM will also give awards to the winners of mega event of KSSM to be held at Rudraksh International Convention Centre.
During the programme, the CM was also honoured by UP Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ravindra Jaiswal by giving him an angavastram and a memento. UP Labour and Employment Minister Anil Rajbhar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Dayashankar Mishra ‘Dayalu’ along with Divisional Commissioner Kaushal Raj Sharma, District Magistrate S Rajalingam, Chief Development Officer Himanshu Nagpal etc were also present.
Meanwhile, the district level competitions was held at five places in the series of KSSM being organised with the aim of promoting Indian culture in genres like dance, music, singing, street drama etc. A cultural competition in solo and group categories of classical and sub-classical singing genres was organised in Police Commissionerate in different age groups. The event was presided over by UP Minister Dr Dayashankar Mishra ‘Dayalu’. Additional Municipal Commissioner Rajiv Rai, Education Officer Shashikant Srivastava, Project Officer of DUDA Nidhi Bajpai and many others were also present.
A street drama competition was organised for participants in the age group of 18 to 40 and above 40 at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Education, Sarnath. The competition was inaugurated by lighting the lamp by MLC Hansraj Vishwakarma, At an event held at Sunbeam Varuna, Zila Panchayat Chairperson Poonam Maurya was the chief guest. Divisional Commissioner Kaushal Raj Sharma lit the lamp while Sunbeam Group Chairman Deepak Madhok and Director Bharti Madhok welcomed the guests.
In Sant Atulanand Convent School, solo competition category in folk playing Naal and Tasha Damru and cultural competition in group playing Naal Damru and Naal genre was organised.
The event was presided over by Nagendra Raghuvanshi, member Central Khadi Board and local corporator Sandeep Raghuvanshi. At Padma Vibhushan Girija Devi Cultural Complex, Chowkaghat events. The chief guest was MLA Sunil Kumar Patel from Rohaniya.