By Haryananewswire
BHIWANI, JUNE 27
Veteran journalist Dev Brat Vashisth passed away after
brief illness in Bhiwani on Wednesday. His final rites were performed at local
cremation ground and funeral pyre was lit by his son. He was 80. With his
demise an era in Haryana journalism ended. He was committed to his writings .
After holding editorship of renowned weekly newspaper
‘Chetna’, he launched ‘Dainik Chetna’ in 1981 from Bhiwani. His inspirations
were behind launching of daily Hindi daily ‘Evening Mail’, English daily ‘The
homepages’. During emergency period (during 1975 to 1977) he along with his
father remained political prisoner in Haryana.
He was a staunch follower of ethical journalism and
established great discipline in writings. He was a fearless journalist and
always published articles in support of common men. Several social
organisations passed grief resolution on his death and paid tribute to him. He
was awarded with ‘Babu Banarsi Dass Gupt Bhiwani Gaurav Puruskar’ for
journalism by the Bhiwani Parivar Maitri Sangh, Delhi. He was founder general
secretary of the Haryana Shramjivi Patrakar Sangh.
He remained associated with English dailies The Tribune,
Hindustan Times and Hindi dailies Hindustan, Navbharat Times for a long period
as correspondent from Bhiwani district.
Ex Deputy Speaker of Vidhan Sabha Dr. Vasudev Sharma,
former MLA and DCC president Dr. Shankar Bhardwaj, HPCC spokesman Ashok
Buwaniwala, Cong leader Ram Pratap Sharma, Tosham sarpach Dev Raj Toshamia, HJC
Youth wing state president Virender Kaushik, INLD leaders Vikram Singh Tanwar,
Ramesh Bansal, Dr V B Dixit, Dr. K D Sharma, Dr. Roshan Lal, Dr. Swasti,
Praveen Kokra, ex-municipal councilors Ramesh Hetampuria, Pawan Kedia and
Haryana Pragtisheel Patrakar Sangh state president Narottam Bagri, journalists
Ram Niwas Sharma,Ajay Malhotra, Rajender Chauhan, Anuj Rana,Ashok
Dhikav, BJP district president Tara Chand Agarwal, Bhiwani Petroleum
Dealers Association office bearer Maman Chand Agarwal, Gig Raj jain, Balmiki
Sabha president Ramesh Dhikav, Shyam Milan Mandal body members Ghanshyam Bagri,
Sanjay Sharma, Praveen Singhal, Vijay Goyal, were among others who joined
funeral.
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