Meditation

Meditation camp for jail inmates

 

COOCH BEHAR, June 30: A meditation camp was held yesterday inside Cooch Behar District Correctional Home (CDCH) for the inmates. Shri Jain Shwetambar Terapanthi Sabha organised the programme. Two Jain Sramanis – Sangha Pragya and Suman Pragya and Preksha Dhyan teacher Jaichand Dugar taught the jail inmates how to meditate. They emphasised on Yoga and Preksha meditation. More than two hundred inmates participated in the camp. CDCH superintendent, Mr Khagendra Nath Bir too attended the programme.

 

In the camp the inmates were taught to shun anger and addiction to all types of intoxication. By practicing long breathing and Jyoti Kendra Preksha a man can achieve a good character. The inmates promised that they would follow the teachings of the Sramanis, Mr Dugar said. []

 

Trinamul rally

 

COOCH BEHAR, June 30: Trinamul Congress organised a large rally at Mathabhanga on Monday afternoon. In the gathering that was organised at Post Office Morh the speakers came down heavily on the CPI-M for its alleged bid to turn Deocharai and Nakkatigachh in Tufanganj into another Nandigram. They also condemned the recent violent attacks on Trinamul Congress supporters.

 

State Trinamul Congress secretary Md Abdul Jalil Ahmed, district vice-president Mr Niranjan Dutta, Mr Binay Barman, Ms Kalyani Poddar, Kumar Rajib Narayan and Mr Lalit Pramanik were among the speakers.

 

Mr Dutta said the law and order situation is deteriorating in Cooch Behar district. The police are acting under the instructions issued by the CPI-M leadership, he alleged. []