Appeals for honoring martyrs by raising Tri-colour
Guwahati, 02nd August, 2017
Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) on the occasion of
71st Independence Day of India appeals to citizens of Northeast
irrespective of their caste, creed and religious background to hoist
the National flag on 15th August and pay respect to the martyrs who
sacrificed their lives to make India a sovereign nation.
Irrespective of who we are, how we come to become part of the Indian
Union, it is our bounden duty to pay respect to them who laid down
their lives to free us all from the clutches of British colonial
forces, asserted the Patriotic Forum, in a media statement.
This appeal has been sent without any prejudice whatsoever and without
any disrespect to any individual or groups that have been fighting a
battle of identity and self-determination, but is a reminder that we
must not forget our common history, when we stood together to fight
our battle for freedom, it added.
The PPFA feels that if we, who are composed of millions of individuals
and organizations, keep demanding for our ‘rights’ to be given special
concessions like reservation quota, grants, special area development
funds and other forms of socio-political and economic advantages from
New Delhi, would acknowledge the fact that if not for the martyrs we
are not demanding these rights.
The likes of Moje Riba, Matmur Jamoh, Kushal Konwar, Tilak Deka,
Bhogeswari Phukanani, Kanaklata Barua, Mukunda Kakati, Nidhanu
Rajbangshi, Kamala Miri, Lerela Boro, Madan Rauta, Hemoram Patar,
Gunabhi Bordoloi, Sambhudan Phonglo, Beer Tikendrajit Singh, Paona
Brajabashi, Tirot Singh, Shoorvir Pasaltha Khuangchera, Rani
Gaidinliu, Jitendra Chandra Paul etc of our region, who fought
selflessly against the exploitative and abusive imperial power that
ruled undivided India, must not be forgotten.
Their sacrifices will keep reminding us that while we all have our own
identities and fight our own struggles with the establishment that
governs, we must stand together to thwart all imperialist designs
which would only divide us and lead us all towards destruction. Our
social-ethnic fabric is rich with history and stories of bravery,
which have all played a significant part in shaping our present.
Therefore, without any contraction we must exercise our rational
thinking first and pay our respects to the freedom fighter by saluting
the Tri-colour. If they could fight the freedom battle under the flag,
there is no reason why we who have been repeatedly demanding our
rights from the different governments that came to power in New Delhi
after independence, should not do the same.
Thus it is our fervent appeal that on the forthcoming Independence
Day, we should pay homage to the known & unknown martyrs of India’s
freedom struggle, who finally gave us the freedom, endorsed by Rupam
Barua, Jagadindra Raichoudhury, Bidhayak Das, Anup Sarma, Pramod
Kalita, Urmi Bhattacharjee, Manju Borah, Oken Jeet Sandham, Utpal
Parashar, DN Singh, Dhiraj Goswami, Manoj Khandelwal, Dipson Baruah,
Anirban Choudhury, Ghameswar Kalita, Bimal Ghosh, Kamal Krishna Das,
Bitupan Dutta, Sumir Karmakar, Sanjiv Prakash, Sabyasachi Sharma,
Deepak Parvatiyar, Kamal Kumar Medhi, Prarthana Hazarika, Namrata
Datta, Soumyadeep Dutta, Dipankar Baruah, Samya Bharadwaj, Kumarjit
Sarma, Debojit Kotoky, Anu Boro, Monalisa Mahanta, Anjana Dutta,
Anjanil Kashyap, Dibya Barthakur, Bikash Kumar Das, Neentu Pathak ,
Alex Todd, Bhuban Saikia, Gita Saharia etc
* This Press Release was sent to e-pao.net by Patriotic People’s Front Assam who can be contacted at tnavajyoti(AT)gmail(DOT)com
This Press Release was posted on August 3 2017
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