Bhagat Puran Singh Birthday celebrated in Chicago

Written by Gurmukh Singh Bhullar

“Bhagat Puran Singh was a man full of compassion, love, affection, caring towards ailing and needy human beings and I salute him for his dedicated services for the human race” These were the words of tribute paid by Professor Jaginder Singh Ramdev at the Birthday celebration of Bhagat Puran Singh at Gurdwara Sahib Palatine. He also requested the congregation to donate generously towards Pingalwara. It was first time in America that Bhagat Puran Singh Ji’s birthday was celebrated at such a high scale. Chicagoland’s Pioneer organization Punjabi Heritage Organization (PHO) who took this initiative, celebrated this day and also bestowed an award on Bhagat Ji name for the second year in a row.   This event was well attended by people of all walks of life. Bibi Abnash Kaur, President of Pingalwara Society of Ontario (Canada) and S. Gurcharan Singh Ahuja from Cleveland Ohio, who has been very instrumental in supporting the causes of Pingalwara attended this function and paid rich tributes to Bhagat Ji life. They also explained the good deeds and the noble charity work that he has done in his lifetime. They gave a bird’s eye view of Pingalwara development from a one man’s small hut to worldwide organization, which looks after thousands of handicapped, mentally retarded people without any kind of distinction.   Today Pingalwara stands stronger than ever on a foundation of love and tender care for humanity for their better and healthy life. They also emphasized the environmentalist aspect of his life and cited how he will even pick a nail from the road and garbage around the streets to make this earth cleaner and better place to live. He was worried about trees being chopped irresponsibly around without any plan to replant new tree. Thus keeping his dream alive almost 15000 trees are planted every year in Schools in Punjab to preserve the natural ecological balance. For more information on Pingalwara please visit www.Pingalwaraonline.org. . Pingalwara has numerous institutions these days in different parts of Punjab where special care is given to poor and needy. They also participate and help in relief efforts of the Natural disaster victims. Bibi Abnash Kaur laid out the life story of Bhagat Puran Singh and asked the SGPC and Punjab Govt. to publish a Book on his life and even construct Hospitals and Schools dedicating to his life. Both Bibi Abnash Kaur and Gurcharan Singh Ahuja congratulated Punjabi Heritage Organization on this noble endeavor for taking this step to remember and honor Bhagat Ji life.   Sadh Sangat, Sikh Religious Society of Chicago, and Punjabi Heritage Organization collectively made efforts to make this program a mega success. Sangat was present in huge number and outpoured their generous donations towards Pingalwara and surprised the organizers by their overwhelming support and thus exceeding the goals by three folds.   Bhagat Puran Singh Award that was started last year was given this year to Bibi Inderjit Kaur who is presiding over Pingalwara all over the World. Bibi Abnash Kaur received the award on her behalf. Photo exhibition was displayed on this day showcasing different projects done by Pingalwara.   PHO initiated this project last year and then pledge to continue to ensure the success of this event every year worked very hard with PHO to ensure the success of the program. Jairam Singh Kahlon and Narinderpal Singh Marwaha worked tremendously hard in coordinating this event. Satnam Singh Aulakh conducted the stage. Different Ragi Jathas recited the Kirtan preaching services to humanity

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