NURMAHAL
Doctor Gurpreet Kaur wife Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday visited Talwann village to celebrate Lohri of newly born girls with villagers.
She lit a bonfire and celebrated the festival with one and all and Nakodar MLA I.K. Mann, Kartar Pur MLA Balkar Singh, and Jalandhar West MLA Seetal Angural.
Interacting with locals, Doctor Gurpreet Kaur said it was the need of the hour to educate and empower girls for making India a front-runner on the path of development and as Lohri was a celebration of Punjab roots and soil, she decided to travel to Talwann village to celebrate the festival.
She told them the state government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had taken various initiatives for women empowerment and lauded the initiative of organising ‘Dhian di Lohri’. Doctor Kaur underlined the need for such efforts throughout the year to fight social evils and said such functions were in line with the path shown by the Sikh Gurus, who taught us to respect women.
She told residents that this festival has immense significance for all of us as it strengthens our ethos of communal harmony, peace, and brotherhood.