STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: To bring people of different faiths together through traditional sports, Hindu Muslim Etihaad Sangathan on Monday organised a Quami Ekta Dangal in forest area Seegala under Forest Range Jandrah. People from Hindu and Gujjar community jointly contributed resources for organising the Dangal.
Anil Sharma, founder and Patron of the Hindu Muslim Etihaad Sangathan and President of All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference presided over as Chief Guest.
While giving further details about the sports event held in the forest range, Sharma informed that Sangathan to strengthen the communal bonds between the different faiths decided to promote such sports event.
He said besides promoting communal harmony the motive of the programme was also to bring an awareness about the protection of natural resources like forests and water resources.
It is pertinent to mention here that in this Dangal the wrestlers had agreed to participate without any money and only for Gurh and Kheer for which the milk was provided by the tribal community free of cost and the Gurh was contributed by the Hindu community.
The different rounds of wrestling included rounds of Ajay Sharma v/s Nissar of Doda, Gopal Sharma of Jandrah v/s Murad Ali of Jammu and Akram V/s Vijay of Bajalta and the winners were Ajay, Gopal and Akram Muneer from Jammu respectively.
Members of the Sangathan also congratulated the participating wrestlers and specifically referee Fareed who supported the organisation to manage the event.
Besides a large number of local people from nearby villagers , the prominent persons who were present included Master Chandermauli, Fajji Chowdhary, Jagtar Singh, Surf Din, Som Dutt, Sudesh Verma, Sham Singh, Saleem Mohd, Randhir Singh,Deepak Kumar, Haji Bashir Mohd, Veer Singh, Daleep Kumar Lambardar, Faroz Din, Ajay Kumar Lambardar, Billu, Sardaru, Noorjamal and Sabir Mohammad.
