Celebrate Valentine's Day not with your lover, but with your parents

AMBALA: In a Gandhigiri style of dissuading the lovers from expressing their feelings, a social organization here has initiated to celebrate Valentine’s Day in a new way. The organization has offered to make the youngsters devote this day to their parents.
The Ambala based organization Yuva Seva Sangh has asked youths to bring their parents in their programme to be held at BPS Planetarium in the Cantt area on the occasion of Valentine’s Day on February 14 to offer them respect.
“We want to celebrate this day as Parents Day. The members of our organization are visiting schools and colleges in Ambala Cantt and City to make youths aware about the value of their parents in life,” said Yuva Seva Sangh, president, Gagandeep Thapar alias Banti.
The organization which is going to hold a programme of this kind for the first time, will celebrate its programme with 300 sets of parents.
According to president of the organization, 170 sets of parents have, so far, got their names registered with the organization.
The organization is not against the celebration of Valentine’s Day but it is against the manner in which it is being celebrated by the youths who are ignoring social values.
“We appreciate the youths who celebrate Valentine’s Day to mark respect to their parents, elders and teachers. But if it is celebrated to indulged in wrongdoings, including pre-marriage sex, we clearly oppose it,” said Gagandeep Thapar.
Although, a number of youths have welcomed the initiative being taken by the Yuva Seva Sangh, they also believe that the youth should not be deprived from their right of living in their own way.
“To respect our parents and elders is our first duty but the organizations should allow the youths to celebrate occasions like Valentine’s Day in a respectful manner,” said youths, Anil and Shefali.