JASWANT SINGH GANDAM / RAMAN NEHRA
India Post News Service
PHAGWARA: In a token gesture of love and respect to marking Raksha Bandhan August 15, five girls from a cross-section of the society tied rakhis on the wrist of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh in Jalandhar.
The Chief Minister offered them sweets and gifts in return, as a mark of his affection and wished them a bright, happy and prosperous future.
The girls, who also gave sweets to Captain Amarinder and put a tilak on his forehead, included daughters of two martyred soldiers.
While Sonia is the daughter of Constable Raj Kumar who laid down his life in Jammu and Kashmir, Bhawna is the daughter of martyr Lance Naik Kulwinder Singh.
The others were a Gurdaspur farmer’s daughter Sulekha, a student of class 3 in the local Red Cross School for Deaf and Dumb, Muskan who belongs to an EWS family and is a student of local Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Nehru Garden, and Komalpreet Kaur from a farming family of village Salempur.
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