By TCN Staff Reporter
New Delhi: On the eve of 24th death anniversary of Frontier Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the Khudai Khidmatgaar, the movement which was recently revived in India by Faisal Khan, launched its communal harmony and disaster management wing on Friday.
In a simple function organized in Gandhi Smriti, 22 Khudai Khidmatgaars, volunteers of Khudai Khidmatgaar, were presented with the maroon colored dress. Coming from Rajashan, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Pondicherry, Delhi, Bihar and Manipur, these 22 social activists represent the entire country.
Faisal Khan addressing the gathering
Faisal Khan said that these 22 people are not ordinary people, but they have been already working in the area of social activism. They will work specially on communal harmony and man made and natural disasters.
“People have high hopes from us and we will to try to come up to their expectations. For that we need to work with conviction and honesty,” said Faisal Khan.
On this occasion Faisal Khan also announced that the organization has reached the membership of five thousand after the membership was started on 20th January last year.
Khudai Khidmatgaars(in maroon dress at the back)
The function was attended by Mahatma Gandhi’s grand daughter, Tara Gandhi, well known Gandhians SN Subbarao, Bharat Dogra, faculty of IIT Delhi and social activists Prof. VK Tripathi, social activist Manimala and several other members of the national committee of the revival of Khudai Khidmatgaar.
“History has been written by the revival of Khhudai Khidmatgar by Faisal Khan, and I am really very proud of this,” said Tara Gandhi.
Appreciating the revival of the movement which was initially started by Frontier Gandhi, Prof. VK Tripathi said that gradually the entire country will be benefited by this movement.
Barat Dogra called the revival of the movement as “the requirement of time especially in the context of commercialization of social activism.”