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| PUCL remembers Balraj Puri | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 16 : In a meeting in memory of Balraj Puri organized by the Peoples’ Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL) at Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi. Badri Raina, former professor of Delhi University and well known commentator on politics, culture and society, remembered the days of 1947 when the Jammu region was wrought with communal conflict. At that critical time, Balraj Puri collected a band of secular students to form a Jammu Students Union who devoted themselves to check the communal madness and were able to save many lives. Raina drew attention to the tremendous work done by Puri in maintaining, promoting and strengthening secular values and communal harmony in J&K. He was respected by all sections of the society in the State and his voice always had saner influence when sensitive issues erupted. In his personal life Puri was very simple and his house in Karan Nagar, Jammu, from the very beginning to the present day has been open to people from all stations and backgrounds. He never aspired for political patronage or personal favour. Prem Singh, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, remembered his last meeting with Puri about three years back when he and other members had gone to meet him at his house during convention of the J&K chapter of their party at Jammu to seek his blessings and advice. He remembered Puri’s valued contributions made in the various fields and lamented that his demise was a great loss to the democratic and secular movement in the country.
He called upon the present generation to preserve and promote the legacy left by Puri. Salim Engineer, Secretary of the Forum For Democracy & Communal Amity, said that Puri was one of the important members of the Forum which was formed in 1993 after demolition of the Babri Masjid under the chairmanship of V.M.Tarkunde. The Forum had been campaigning holding meetings in various parts of India to promote communal amity and Puri used to attend and address such conferences. |
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