Sapre Museum should be developed as tourist centre: Nath

Chief Minister Kamal Nath has said that the Sapre Museum is a historical place which has not only covered the history of the newspaper world but also has all the features for being developed as a better tourist centre. Therefore, it should also be developed as a tourist centre.

Nath was addressing the closing ceremony of the seminar held on the completion of 100 years of Karmaveer magazine, edited by Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi, a well-known national freedom fighter. On this occasion, the Chief Minister dedicated the reference book ‘Karmaveer Ke Sau Saal’. At the onset, the Chief Minister garlanded the portrait of Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi on his death anniversary and paid tributes.

The Chief Minister said that it is a coincidence that today is the death anniversary of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and national poet Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi both. He said that Mahatma Gandhi is an ideology which shows the way of becoming the whole world a better nation and a peaceful life for its citizens. He said that he compelled the world’s biggest imperial power to leave India through truth and non-violence. He said that national poet Pt Makhanlalji created new zeal in the freedom struggle through his patriotic poems and his forceful writing. He was the pride and glory of our State.

Kamal Nath said that while on the one hand Mahatma Gandhi gave the message of peace to the whole world, on the other hand Ambedkar paved the way for the world through an egalitarian constitution.

Recalling his Africa visit, the Chief Minister said that when he visited the President of a country, he happened to see pictures of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhimrao Ambedkar Baba Saheb in his room. “I thought perhaps the pictures were put up because of my visit, but this was not so”.

Not mentioning the country and President’s name due to political reasons, he said that the President told him that the egalitarian outlook adopted by India in the formation of the Constitution is a source of inspiration for our country’s Constitution. “Referring to Gandhiji, the President told that their country had adopted the path of non-violence of Gandhiji to establish peace and free the country from violence”.

He said that it is the biggest need today to follow the Gandhian way taking into the account the challenges and unrest in the entire world.