100-plus bi­cy­clists, in­clud­ing se­nior cit­i­zens and women, pad­dled through the heart of West Delhi near Ra­jouri Gar­den, spread­ing a mes­sage of peace to passers-by and those gath­ered to cheer them.

LED BY THE SIKH YOUTH FOUN­DA­TION OF DELHI, RID­ERS FROM  from United Sikhs Delhi, Ocean War Acad­emy and Cy­cle Bud­dies sport­ing “Pad­dle For Peace” T-Shirts, young ath­letes, school and col­lege stu­dents, some el­derly gen­tle­men, and a 10-year-old Taski­rat Singh cy­cled with great en­thu­si­asm, cov­er­ing a dis­tance of 13 kilo­me­tres, pass­ing through Ra­jouri Gar­den. Raja Gar­den, Tilak Na­gar, La­jwanti Chowk and Maya­puri.

Two cy­cling he­roes -Deepak Singh from Chat­tarpur tra­versed a dis­tance of 24 kilo­me­tres and Sachin from Farid­abad pad­dled 42 kilo­me­tres to par­tic­i­pate in the event.

The young par­tic­i­pants were en­cour­aged by Nishkam Sikh Wel­fare So­ci­ety founder and for­mer Pres­i­dent Harb­ha­jan Singh Sawh­ney and Voice for Voice­less di­rec­tor Man­preet Singh.  Ad­dress­ing the gath­er­ing Harb­ha­jan Singh said, “To suc­ceed re­mem­ber the 3 Cs -Con­fi­dence, Con­cen­tra­tion and Con­tent­ment.”

Speak­ing to World Sikh News, Sikh Youth Foun­da­tion leader Harneek Singh said, “In these dif­fi­cult times, it is im­per­a­tive to talk about peace. Cy­cling and ex­er­cis­ing are es­sen­tial ac­tiv­i­ties to fight Covid19 times.”

“Sikh Youth Foun­da­tion has been sup­port­ing med­ical re­quire­ments and pro­vid­ing masks to those in need and ra­tion kits to Sikh San­gat, Se­wadars, Granthis, Kathawachaks and Ragis in Chan­der Vi­har, Tilak Na­gar, Ra­jouri Gar­den and East Delhi,” he added.

Sukhbir Singh of the Sikh Youth Foun­da­tion said that the youth should come for­ward and spir­i­tu­ally pre­pare to ef­fec­tively man­age Sikh in­sti­tu­tions.