Governor Balramji Dass Tandon was inducted as the Chief Patron of the Chhattisgarh State Bharat Scouts and Guides Association at the Raj Bhavan here in a simple ceremony.
Bharat Scouts and Guides State Chairman and Minister Brijmohan Agrawal and the State Executive Chairman Rajesh Agrawal were present in the function organised in the honour of the Governor.Speaking at the ceremony Tandon said, ‘’We got independence because of the sacrifice and struggle of the freedom fighters.
“Now it is our duty to retain this freedom. History has witnessed that when the country’s helmsmen fall asleep, the country loses its freedom.’’
“We need to stay awake all the time to retain this freedom. We need to inject the thought of patriotism among the youth so that the head of our country stay high in the world with honour,” he said.
Recollecting the memory of his childhood, the Governor said that he himself was a member of Scouts and Guides.The Governor said he felt very happy to listen to the Scouts and Guides prayers ‘Daya Karna Bhakti Ki’ song. It is essential that we implement the feeling of this prayer in our daily life.
We should increase mutual cooperation, love and the need to increase the sense of coordination in life, he said. Bharat Scouts and Guides State Chairman and Minister Brijmohan Agrawal expressed his gratitude to the Governor for giving his consent to become the Chief Patron of the Chhattisgarh state unit.
He said the Bharat Scouts and Guides volunteers have worked with a sense of patriotism in the time of famines, floods and other natural disasters.