Odisha-born noted freedom fighter and founder of Azad Hind Fouz, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was a real strength of communal harmony and women power, speakers expressed in the sixth Netaji Subhas Utsav, Jay Hind 2020, held here on Friday.
The event was organised by the Utkala Bikasha Juba Parisad. Speakers described how four youth of Azad Hind Fauz's suicide squad members Fauza Singh from Punjab, Satyachandra Barddhan from Tripura, K Anantan Nair, a Kerali Brahmin and Vakkom Khader, a Kerali Muslim were hanged together in Madras jail on September 10, 1943 and Kerali Christian Bonfice Perreriah was sentenced with life imprisonment for being a minor.
Those days Netaji had inspired young girls to be in the fore front of independence movement. Jhansi regiment was formed and Captain Laxmi Sehgal was made a Minister in Azad Hind Government. Dr Leela Nag was nominated to national planning committee. When Pritilata Athe, a teacher, took arms and shot dead six British officers inside European Club in Chittagong and was seriously injured in return fire, she consumed cyanide.
Athe was just twenty one. Kanaklata Baruah, while leading a mass to hoist the tricolor inside Gohpur police station in Borangbari, Assam, she was shot dead by British police she was just 17. Pari Bewa too was shot dead by British police as a minor, told the speakers, calling upon youths and students to follow the ideologies of these martyrs.
Saheed Kanaklata's nephew Abhijit Baruah was felicitated with Netaji Samman 2020 along with Krushnachandra Patra, Prasant Mishra, Bilua Nayak, anti liquor leader Indumati Sahu, social worker Bijaylaxmi Routray and journalist Swati Jena.
Former Chief Minister Hemanand Biswal was chief guest while Prof Birendra Nayak was chief speaker. Pradyumna Satapathy, Kishore Mania and Shivanand Ray , Professor Kishore Swain were the other guests. Parisad president Debiprasad Prusti chaired.
