JAMMU, Sept. 23 -- The Shri Amar Kshatriya (Rajput) Sabha, J&K (UT), organised celebrations across Jammu and Kashmir on September 23 to mark the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh, with large numbers of people from different sections of society participating in the programmes. The celebrations were held with enthusiasm and traditional fervour at various places across the Union Territory. Havans were performed and Ahuties offered amid chanting of mantras and Vedic hymns. Participants also raised slogans in memory of Maharaja Hari Singh.

The Sabha said Maharaja Hari Singh's birth anniversary provides an occasion to remember him not only as the last Maharaja of the erstwhile State of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh but also as a ruler who wor...