By Aug 18th Saturday evening between 4 to 6Pm people from GTA assembled at Bharath Mata Mandhir in Brampton Canada to pay their Shradhanjali for Former Indian PM Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji. Many leaders from Overseas Friends of BJP Canada, Other Hindu outfits in GTA and MPPs Nina Tangri, Deepak Anand, Indian Consulate General Sri Dinesh Bhatia ji participated in the event along with 100s of other community leaders and activists.
Sri Anil V. Shringi hosted the event and also recited couple of Slokas for athma shanthi of Sri Vajpayee ji. Many OFBJP leaders including Sri Vipin Sharma ji, Sri Rishi Acharya ji and Bharat Mata Mandhir president Sri Jeff Lal ji and also MPP Nina Tangri and other leaders spoke and share their experience with Sri Vajpayee ji and also the personal relationship with him and also his simplicity.
Hundreds of people offered flowers to the picture of Sri Vajpayee Ji and prayed for his atma shanti. Bharat Mata Mandhir pundit ji mesmerized the audience with keerthans and songs during the program.
Indian Consulate General Sri Dinesh Bhatia ji was the keynote speaker and he shared about Sri Vajpayee ji’s braveness, valor and love for peace by giving example of Vajpayee Ji’s bus trip to Pakistan, Kargil war & nuclear test where he took on the western world and Agra Summit with then Pak president Pervez Musharraf. Also addressed his works on modernizing India and Indian roads.
