Hi
yesterday meeting was very gracious and generative. fist i apologise to those member whom we could not contact bcoz meeting was decided in such a short period that we could not inform to all, the meeting was held at dakshinpuri mandir, actually first we decided to meet at garhwal bhavan but later we changed place and decide to meet in dakshinpuri mandir .
around 30 to 40 people were present there, and 7 member were from CU
1) Dayal pandey
2) Shekhar Sharma
3) Hem Pant
4) himani
5) rachana
6)Anubhav
7)shailesh
The meeting was started by charuda's speech he made us aware about recent development in uttarakhand.
he explained but culprits of the horrendous Muzaffarnagar incident are still roaming free, and how government are trying to save them,
and he also told about the shameful act of uttarakhand govt that they gave a VIP treatment to BUA SINGH last month when he was visiting uttarakhand who is the main accused of MUZZAFARNAGAR KAND..........
and he also explained about govt policies and about migration which is still not stopped, about 150000 houses are locked, no body wants to stay there..
and there is a danger of demographic change in uttarakhand bcoz native people are leaving pahad and mafia businessman, ... are coming towards pahad they are buying land , exploiting resources, illegally capturing land......and disturbing the ecology, economy, culture there....
aftr that other people also delivered speech, from our group , hempant ji , anubhav gave speech and pay our tribute to GREAT UTTARAKHAND MARTYRS who sacrificed there life for the bright future of uttarakhand...,CU members also tributed three songs to GREAT UTTARAKHAND MARTYRS ..the songs were
Myor pahad Myor pahad....
uuncha daana bati bata bata bati.....
and famous song of Hira singh rana of uttarakhand aandolan
Laska kamar bandhaa himmat kaa saathaa...
and far-famed song of girda of CHIPKO AANDOLAN...
Ho jaita ek din to aalo udhin yo duni mai...
jadhin kathulii raat byaaliii pow fateliii ....
There was some prolific discussion regarding the group activities
CU has decided to start our own publication in the form of journal, magzine....
and also we planned a seminar in delhi which would be a kind of interaction between renowened personality of uttarakhand and the young guns of uttarakhand ...and we have also decided to start a regular practice of folk songs from the navratraa.....
and at the end of meetin we relishes lunch of jhoi bhatt and kaapaaa...
shailesh