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The seminar was inaugurated by the PAU Vice-Chancellor Dr Manjit Singh Kang. He stated that the Kuka movement prepared the masses to struggle for freedom and played a major role for national progress.
Dr. Jagtar Singh Dhiman, Additional Director of Communication, CCIL, said that the Namdhari Society has excelled on many fronts, and that other sections of society should emulate them.
Delivering the key-note address, Prof. Prithi Pal Singh Kapur, former pro-Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, said that the Kukas were the first who evolved non-cooperation and the use of Swadeshi as political weapons. They stressed on wearing of hand-spun khadi, much before it was taken up by Mahatma Gandhi.
Suwaran Singh Virk delivered his talk on the “India’s struggle for freedom and Kuka movement”.
Dr. Joginder Singh, Head of Satguru Ram Singh Chair at GNDU said that the Kuka Movement has to be studied from historical perspective. He said that the Kuka movement should be recognized as a revolutionary movement, rather than struggle for a social reform. Prof. Jagmohan Singh said that the struggle for freedom, had three phases, namely pre-1857, between 1857 and 1947 and after 1947.
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