As in previous years, this year too, the Delhi Tourism Department has organized a winter festival program. This time, the program is being held in Shahpur Jat village in Delhi. The 3-day event will run from February 10 to February 12. The program was inaugurated on February 10 by Delhi’s Tourism Minister Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj by lighting a ceremonial lamp.
Addressing the program, Minister Shri Saurabh Bhardwaj said that this festival is a wonderful confluence of Delhi’s rural culture and the modern world of fashion, where even today, people in the village resolve their small problems through the panchayat, while on the other hand, they shop for modern clothes from big showrooms in Shahpur Jat village for weddings and other events held in their homes and buy modern items for their homes from the markets of Shahpur Jat village. This wonderful coordination can be seen in Shahpur Jat village.
Delhi’s Tourism Minister Shri Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the Delhi government’s efforts are to promote trade, employment, and modernity in Delhi through such programs, and along with this, preserving the ancient culture of rural Delhi is also a major effort of the Delhi government. This is why in this three-day program, along with a modern fashion show organized by the Delhi government, a traditional Ragini program has also been organized.
“The special feature of this 3-day program is that on the final day of the program, i.e., February 12, a fashion show will be organized, in which on one side, the younger generation will walk the ramp in modern clothes, while on the other side, the elderly of the village will walk the ramp with the youth wearing their traditional attire of dhoti-kurta and turbans. In this ramp walk, while a 70-year-old grandfather will be seen in his traditional attire, his 20-year-old granddaughter will be seen walking the ramp with her grandfather wearing a beautiful lehenga,” he added.
Minister Shri Saurabh Bhardwaj further said that Delhi’s popular CM Shri Arvind Kejriwal believes that modernity and culture are two sides of the same coin and both can walk together. Until we promote the old villages in Delhi, Delhi cannot progress. Therefore, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal believes that better facilities should be provided to all the villages in Delhi, and the people of the villages should be given every opportunity to shine the name of Delhi along with their village in the whole world.
Just by hearing the name Shahpur Jat village, it is understood that this village belongs to the Jat brothers. Keeping in mind the popularity of the Jat community, on the first day of the program, a Ragini music program was organized by the famous Haryanvi Ragini singer Ramesh Kalavadiya. To enjoy Ragini music, a large number of elderly people, women, and young generations of the village participated in the program. Everyone enjoyed the Ragini music. Famous Ragini singer Ramesh Kalavadiya also thanked the people of Shahpur Jat village, saying that the enthusiasm of people towards Ragini in a city like Delhi, I have never been seen so much enthusiasm for Ragini among people in any city. Later, the famous show band mesmerized the audience with their music at this event. People started dancing to the music of the show band. Youngsters and children danced to the Bollywood songs sung by the show band. Everyone enjoyed the program to the fullest.
Today, on February 11, the second day of the Shahpur Jat Winter Festival, the program started with comedian Pratap Faujdar’s witty jokes. People enjoyed Pratap Faujdar’s jokes immensely. In the program, all the people present burst into laughter at Pratap Faujdar’s jokes. Later in the program, famous Bengali singer Subir presented Hindi and Bengali songs. At the end of the program, a music program by the very famous personality of Hindi cinema’s present time and Bollywood’s famous singer Shilpa Rao was organized. Shilpa Rao, who has given super hit songs in hundreds of films of Pathan, Jawan, and Bollywood world, mesmerized the people of Shahpur Jat village with her sweet music. Seeing the enthusiasm of the crowd, Shilpa Rao also got new enthusiasm to showcase her art. Looking at the crowd in the program, it seemed as if the entire Shahpur Jat village was present in this Winter Festival program today.
Shahpur Jat village is a small village in South Delhi. On one hand, there are narrow winding streets in this village, on the other hand, this village is surrounded by Panchsheel Park, Asian Games Village, and Siri Fort Colony from all sides. One such special feature of Shahpur Jat village that sets it apart from other villages is the big showrooms of Delhi’s big and famous fashion designers in the narrow streets of this village. In these narrow streets, you can see beautiful clothes designed by Delhi’s big fashion designers worth lakhs of rupees in big showrooms.
