{"id":44690,"date":"2025-10-19T18:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/?p=44690"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:20:44","slug":"celebrate-eco-friendly-diwali-with-the-light-of-lamps-not-firecrackers-amit-swami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/?p=44690","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Eco-Friendly Diwali with the Light of Lamps, Not Firecrackers: Amit Swami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajesh Bhardwaj state head Hariyana<\/p>\n<p>Rewari. Amit Swami, National President of the Young Men\u2019s Association of India, appealed to all members and the general public to celebrate this year\u2019s Diwali with lamps and light instead of firecrackers, promoting environmental protection and health awareness.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44691\" src=\"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251019-WA0007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251019-WA0007.jpg 225w, https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251019-WA0007-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Addressing a meeting held at the association\u2019s Auto Market office, Swami said that firecrackers cause severe air, sound, and water pollution. He explained that harmful chemicals such as zinc, phosphorus, and sulfur released from firecrackers pollute the environment and cause respiratory diseases, asthma, kidney, skin, eye, and heart problems.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44692\" src=\"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251019-WA0006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1070\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251019-WA0006.jpg 1070w, https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251019-WA0006-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251019-WA0006-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251019-WA0006-768x534.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1070px) 100vw, 1070px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that it is our moral responsibility to celebrate this holy festival by spreading light through lamps rather than smoke through crackers. Swami also pointed out that firecrackers not only pollute the air but also lead to accidental fires and injuries every year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy celebrating a cracker-free Diwali, we can protect our environment and gift a cleaner future to the next generations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the association\u2019s office bearers and members supported Amit Swami\u2019s eco-friendly appeal and pledged to celebrate a safe, pollution-free Diwali.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prominent attendees included Harendra Jangra, Atul Saxena, Ishwar Pehalwan, Lalit Gupta, Praveen Aggarwal, Paras Chaudhary, Manish Gupta, Mahendra Pehalwan, Amit Yadav, Ramesh Sharma, Rajendra Saini, Sonu Yadav, Manish Yadav, Tufar Ahuja, Shyam Lal Soni, Vikas, and Gaurav Harit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajesh Bhardwaj state head Hariyana Rewari. Amit Swami, National President of the Young Men\u2019s Association of India, appealed to all members and the general public to celebrate this year\u2019s Diwali with lamps and light instead of firecrackers, promoting environmental protection and health awareness. Addressing a meeting held at the association\u2019s Auto Market office, Swami said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44693,"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44690\/revisions\/44693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swatantraprabodh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}