Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan paid homage to Swami Vivekananda on his death anniversary. Chief Minister Shri Chouhan offered garlands on his portrait in the auditorium located at the residence office and bowed down.

Swami Vivekananda was a renowned and influential spiritual teacher of Vedanta. Swami Vivekananda was born on 12 January 1863 in Kolkata. Swami Vivekananda’s birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day in India. At the age of 25, Swamiji had imbibed all the ideologies of Vedas, Puranas, Bible, Quran, Dhammapada, Guru Granth Sahib, economics, political science, literature, music and philosophy. He represented Sanatan Dharma on behalf of India in the 1893 World Religion General Assembly in Chicago, USA. Even on the last day of his life, 4 July 1902, he did not change his meditation routine and took Mahasamadhi in the early morning meditation.