Ludhiana, the industrial city of Punjab, is fully prepared for the VI All India Conference of BSNL Employees Union to be held up there from 25th to 28th September 2012. Accommodation and other facilities for the delegates and observes numbering about 2000 are already in place. Due to difficulty in getting Conference Hall etc., all these were booked many months back.

Punjab, the Land of Five Rivers, has always been the defender of the nation from the attacks from outside and had borne the brunt. Even now most of the Punjabi families have their kith and kin in the army.  It was one of the main centres of the freedom movement. Revolutionaries like Comrades Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev and others sacrificed their lives on the altar of freedom at their early ages.The glorious role of the Gaddar movement is part of the freedom struggle. The memorials to the Babas. who met their end in the solitary cells of the CellularJail in Port-Blair ( Andaman and Nicobar Islands) once again remind you of the glorious past of  Punjab. Punjab played a dominant role in the green revolution, in agriculture.  The Golden Temple of Amritsar, Jallianwala Bag, ,where thousands met martyrdom for the freedom, Wagha Border  the frontier with Pakistan – all are places to be seen and experienced.

Under the efficient leadership of Coms. R.L.Moudgil, President and Balbir Singh, Circle Secretary and leaders of the Reception Committee, preparations are almost at the finishing stage. In advance I congratulate all of these comrades for their sincere and dedicated work.

Only a few days are left for the AIC, in which organisational matters and issues of workers and of national importance will be discussed and inspiring decisions taken.  Let us wait impatiently for the coming days.