Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 16
Prominent personalities, leaders and officers from the Defence attended At Home at Punjab Raj Bhawan on the 71st Independence Day UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore interacted with senior citizens, serving and retired Army officers on the day.
The function commenced with the National Anthem. Parneet Kaur, former Union Minister and wife of the Chief Minister, Punjab, Lt Gen Bhopinder Singh, former Lt Governor, Andaman and Nicobar, Rana KP Singh, Speaker, Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Ajaib Singh Bhatti, Deputy Speaker, Punjab Vidhan Sabha. Manpreet Singh Badal, Finance Minister, Punjab, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Social Welfare Minister, Kirron Kher, Member of Parliament, Chandigarh, Avinash Rai Khanna, Member, Rajya Sabha, and national vice-president, BJP, Sanjay Tandon, Vineet Joshi, Andrew Ayre, British Deputy High Commissioner, Chief Secretary, Karan Avtar Singh, JM Balamurugan, Secretary to the Governor. Tejveer Singh, Special Principal Secretary to the Punjab CM and Secretary, Public Relations, Asha Jaiswal, Mayor, Chandigarh, Kusumjit Sidhu, chairperson, PSERC, NPS Heera, chairman, PPSC, SS Channi, Chief Information Commissioner, Adviser to the Administrator, Parimal Rai, Anurag Aggarwal, Home Secretary, Director General of Police, TS Luthra, Chief of Army (retd) General VP Malik, councillors of the MC, Chandigarh. Arun Grover, VC, PU, Prof BS Ghuman, Vice-Chancellor, Punjabi University, Patiala, and awardees were there to greet the Governor.