Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, July 18 2010:
The final round of 2nd State Level Huidrom Khogen Memorial Open Patriotic Songs Competition 2010 was held today at Manipur Dramatic Union, Yaiskul Police Lane.
The competition was organized by Huidrom Khogen Memorial Trust.
The closing function was presided by MLA Th Nandakishore, Hareshwar Goswami, Deputy Secretary, IPR and Huidrom Noren, President of Huidrom Khogen Memorial Trust as chief guest, guest of honour and president respectively.
Speaking as chief guest, Th Nandakishore said that our nation has to be defended by ourselves.
Nobody will come and defend for us.
He hoped that the patriotic songs competition held today will ignite patriotic fervor among our people.
Hareshwar Goswami reminded that about thirty years ago playing patriotic songs in the morning raised the patriotic emotions of the hearers.
But today such patriotic emotions and passions cannot be arisen on the hearers if such songs are played.
We have to introspect and find out the reasons for it.
As a part of the event, the jury members and the musicians were presented simple gifts by Huidrom Khogen Memorial Trust.
Latter, prizes and certificates were distributed to the position holders of the competition.