TarnTaran: It is the pilgrimage to his ancestral village, Pak Punjab CM Mian Shahbaz Sharif, is going to relish for his whole life time as it has fulfilled lifelong wish to its kiss the sacred soil. As the choppers carrying the family of Pak Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif along with Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal landed at makeshift helipad at the outskirts of village, Mr. Sharif alighting from the helicopter took a deep breath to inhale air of his village and his moist eyes were reflecting his longing for his ancestral land.
He was welcomed by Mr. Bikram Singh Majithia, Revenue and Public Relations Minister who has been instrumental in organizing the visit of Pak Punjab CM Mian Shahbaz Sharif since last few months and had been working day and night to organize befitting reception for him. Mr. Sharif touched the soil of the village and he seemed to be recalling the bed time stories of his father and grandfather regarding the topography of village and trying to match description of village with the stories told to him.
Thanking Mr. Badal and Mr. Majithia for taking care of his village and nurturing it as their own village, Mr. Sharif was driven to his house that was donated by his family for the construction of Gurdwara Kalgidhar and became emotional to have a feel of its walls. The friends of his father Gian Singh and Massa Singh were emotionally choked to see the son of their old friend Muhammad Sharif now ruling the neighbouring Punjab. They hugged and kissed on the forehead of Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and blessed his wife, his son Suleman Sharif, daughter-in-law, daughter Ayesha Haroon and son-in-law Haroon Yousaf Aziz.
He requested to send a delegation of his ancestral village including Gian Singh and Massa Singh to Pakistan and promised that he would ensure their visa and their hospitality. He said that Gurbachan Singh and Major Singh son of his father’s friend Arjan Singh had already visited him last year.
Emotionally choked Shahbaz Sharif, when rose to speak in the reception function there was huge applause from over 1000 villagers who were waiting for more than five hours patiently to have a glimpse of son of the village. He immediately developed connect with his villagers by paying respect to elders and speaking in chaste Punjabi language Sat Sri Akal.
Speaking in Punjabi he recalled his first visit along with his father and five uncles when they sat on the cots of Panchayat and relished hot milk served by the villagers. Developing a direct rapport with the villagers, Mr. Sharif said that it was destiny that my father migrated before partition and I was born in Pakistan. He said that his family had not migrated to Pakistan he would have taken birth in Jati Umra and by that equation he was son of this village.
Welcoming Shahbaz Sharif to his own village, Mr. Badal said that it was such an emotional moment of the history when the time freezes. He said that he can understand the emotional gestures of Sharif family and said that he would nurture this village as his own village. Opening a gift box for the village, Mr. Badal said that he had already sanctioned projects worth Rs.3.5 cores.