Dubai: KSCC, an entity registered with Community Development Authority, Government of Dubai organized a live event celebrating UAE National Day in a theme of Coloring the Nation for the 5th Year on 2nd December 2020.

As this year UAE is celebrating their 49th anniversary of National Day, KSCC went live on their Facebook page and Youtube channel at 3 PM. Started event with UAE National Anthem followed by Presidential Speech from KSCC President Ismail.

KSCC presented a video “UAE, A HAVEN OF DIVERSITY” showing how UAE is exceptionally tolerant to all people living in UAE and how it is unified with Diversity.

KSCC took this opportunity to reveal real-life heroes who were not recognized to the public as they have contributed and helped the needy during the COVID –19 lockdown and thereafter where people were struggling for food and lives. These “UNSUNG HEROES of COVID19” were felicitated with Appreciation mementos from KSCC.

Later on, they also released a video showing how UAE leadership is bringing colors to the lives of expats. Video also showed some of the expats sharing their greatness to the UAE from themselves.

As this event theme was Coloring the Nation, which KSCC has been organizing for the past 5 years with drawing and painting contests, even this year also KSCC has declared the contest online and the artists submitted their drawings and paintings online. This event also showcased arts from artists and all the participants were acknowledged with appreciation certificates.

A special event like honoring the Ambulance Driver also took place live to recognize and appreciate their efforts which were very important during this pandemic time. KSCC also felicitated Ambulance Drivers for their contributions and hard efforts.

KSCC had worked and helped the needy during this pandemic by food and food kit distribution, blood donation, dead body repatriations, handling helpline calls, flight repatriation, iftar kits distribution, etc, and benefited around 10500 beneficiaries. KSCC showcased these happy moments of voluntary works before the conclusion of this live event.

This event was hosted by BOD member Mohammad Faraz and concluded with a thanksgiving speech from BOD member Gafoor. UAE citizens who are also among BOD members wished National day for all live event participants and viewers, Shafi, Club Manager, Vice Pr. Ziauddin, members, sponsors, and supports have joined to experience live events.

With going live on Facebook and YouTube, KSCC has also campaigned on Twitter to promote Unsung Heroes with their exclusive hashtag “KSCC_UNSUNGHEROES” where around 5700 tweets were tweeted and were trending top 2 in UAE. It was a very successful campaign in the end.

KSCC specially thanked CDA, Dubai Government, all participants, technical team, volunteers, and all the attendees in the conclusion.

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Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.

The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.

The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.

The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.

Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.

Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.

Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.