Chandigarh, July 30:  Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal said that the government is focussed on spreading the teachings and thoughts of Saints and Great personalities.  

The Chief Minister said this while  speaking at a programme  organized by the Akhil Bhartiya Aggarwal Samaj to thank Chief Minister held here today.

Agrawal Community  of Haryana, Delhi, Punjab and Chandigarh organised this programme after Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal announced to name Hisar Airport as Maharaja Agrasen International Airport.  

During this programme, representatives of various organizations expressed their gratitude to the Chief Minister by presenting silver mace, shawls, turbans, souvenirs, bouquets etc.

The Chief Minister said that the people of Agrawal Community are selflessly engaged in social service and have been doing social work  continuously by taking forward the thoughts and culture as preached and taught by great personalities. Society will always progress taking inspiration from such people, said Sh. Manohar Lal. 

The Chief Minister said that the State  Government has decided to celebrate birth anniversary of great personalities at state level so as to take forward their thoughts and ideals so as to inspire the society. 

State level functions are being organized on the occasion of Maharishi Valmiki, Guru Ravidas, Sant Kabir Das, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar jayanti. Besides this, the birth anniversaries of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Guru Arjan Dev Ji and Guru Gobind Singh Ji are also being celebrated in the State with great enthusiasm, added the Chief Minister.

He said that the names of big institutions of the state are also being named after great men.  The Horticulture University of Karnal is named after Maharana Pratap, Skill University of Palwal is named after Lord Vishwakarma.  Similarly, it was decided to name Hisar airport after Maharaja Agrasen, said Sh. Manohar Lal. 

He said that as long as the government has the right to take such decisions of naming institutions and places after great men,  their legacy will be carried forward.  

He said that while working on the 'One Brick One Rupee' principle of socialism as taught by  Maharaja Agrasen, the State Government would continue to work towards economic uplifment of the poor in the society.

The Chief Minister said that people from all over the world would come to Hisar airport, while only some know about Maharaja Agrasen,  naming this Airport after him will ensure that those who do not know about his rich legacy would also get a chance to know about his teachings.  In this way the name of Maharaja Agrasen will be famous all over the world, said Sh. Manohar Lal. 

Vidhan Speaker, Sh. Gian Chand Gupta,  MLA, Hisar, Sh. Kamal Gupta,  MLA, Bhiwani, Sh. Ghanshyam Saraf,  MLA,  Ambala, Sh.  Aseem Goyal, Rithala (Delhi) MLA, Sh.  Mohinder Goyal,  Mayor, Panchkula, Sh. Kulbhushan Goyal, National President, Akhil Bhartiya Agrawal Sammelan, Sh.  Gopal Sharan Garg also shared their views.  

On this occasion, Political Secretary to Chief Minister,  Sh.Krishan Bedi, OSD to Chief Minister, Sh. Bhupeshwar Dayal, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Dr. Amit Agrawal, Principal Media Advisor to Chief Minister, Sh. Vinod Mehta along with many other  renowned people of Agrawal society also remained present.