{"id":36288,"date":"2017-02-13T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=36288"},"modified":"2017-02-13T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:32:33","slug":"chhindwara-dist-collector-madhya-pradesh-asks-people-worship-parents-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=36288","title":{"rendered":"Chhindwara Dist Collector in Madhya Pradesh asks people to worship their parents on Valentine\u2019s Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Madhya Pradesh, Chhindwara Dist collector JK Jain has called on the youth in the district to celebrate February 14 as \u2018Matru Pitru Pujya Divas\u2019 to promote\u00a0\u2018a sense of devotion\u2019 among youth.<br \/>\nIn a letter addressed to the people of Chhindwara, Jain claimed that the purpose is to instill a sense of reverence towards their parents.<br \/>\nHe also said that the event would be celebrated across educational and social institutions with great fervour, and has requested people to promote it across households, villages, communities and towns.\u00a0\u201cI have appealed especially to the youths to observe\u00a0February 14 with their parents and stay away from the western culture,\u201d the letter of the Collector\u00a0said.<br \/>\nAs per the order, \u201cAll educational and social\u00a0institutions in the district are directed to observe this day (as \u2018Matru-Pitru Pujya Diwas\u2019) and it is expected to be\u00a0organised in a grand manner at home, family, village, city and\u00a0colony level.\u201d<br \/>\nThe letter of the Collector (vide no 1197\/Varist Lipik\/2017 dt. 06\/02\/2017) has been sent to all Govt and Govt sponsored Colleges and PG colleges, Dist. Educational Officer, Dist. Coordinator of Schools and Edn. Institutions, Govt. and Non Govt. High and Higher Secondary Schools and to the Dept. of Information and Publication, Chhindwara Dist.<br \/>\n<a class=\"single-image-gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/hinduexistence.org\/2017\/02\/12\/chhindwara-collector-orders-worship-of-parents-on-valentines-day\/order-chhindwara\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28991\" src=\"https:\/\/hinduexistence.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/order-chhindwara.png?w=547&amp;h=641\" alt=\"order-chhindwara\" width=\"547\" height=\"641\" data-attachment-id=\"28991\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hinduexistence.org\/2017\/02\/12\/chhindwara-collector-orders-worship-of-parents-on-valentines-day\/order-chhindwara\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hinduexistence.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/order-chhindwara.png\" data-orig-size=\"759,890\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"order-chhindwara\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/hinduexistence.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/order-chhindwara.png?w=256\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hinduexistence.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/order-chhindwara.png?w=547&amp;h=641\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nValentine\u2019s Day is celebrated all across the world on 14th February every year. It has also faced stern opposition from various organisations in India.<br \/>\nIt is seen that for last 7-8 yrs, many Saints, Seers and Hindu organisations have been opposing the valentine day menace in India on 14th Feb, pointing out its harmful effect on new generation and Indian culture.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\n__Input from PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Madhya Pradesh, Chhindwara Dist collector JK Jain has called on the youth in the district to celebrate February 14 as \u2018Matru Pitru Pujya Divas\u2019 to promote\u00a0\u2018a sense of devotion\u2019 among youth. In a letter addressed to the people of Chhindwara, Jain claimed that the purpose is to instill a sense of reverence towards their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}