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Subject: Citizens celebrate ID in Guwahati
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Dear friends,
Here is a press statement for your information and use. Also attached few
pix.
Regards,
Nava Thakuria
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*Citizens celebrate ID in Guwahati *
Guwahati, Aug 15: To mark the 61st anniversary of Indian Independence Day,
a function was organized on the campus of the Guwahati Press Club on
Wednesday. On the occasion, the National flag was hoisted by noted
litterateur Nirupama Borgohain and veteran journalist Dhirendranath
Chakrabarty led the rituals of paying tributes to the martyrs of the freedom
struggle. The function was organized in response to the call given by 16
journalists, who asked the people of the State to celebrate the Independence
Day defying the diktats of the militants.
Hoisting the flag, Ms Borgohain underlined the significance of Independence
Day celebrations in today's context and she called upon the young
generations to emulate the ideals upheld by the freedom fighters. The people
should come forward overcoming all threats issued by certain quarters to
uphold the spirit of the freedom struggle, she said. In his address,
Dhirendranath Chakrabarty paid rich tributes to the martyrs and those who
faced all sorts of torture of the colonial rulers to make the country free.
People of the country are indebted to these martyrs and freedom fighters, he
said.
The participants of the function, who included representatives of various
organisations like the Save Guwaha ti Build Guwahati, Guwahati Bihu
Sanmilani, Kamrup Natya Samiti, Pragati Shilpi Sangha, Cotton College Union
Society, Assam Tribune Employees' Union, Senior Citizens' Forum, Brihattar
Guwahati Nagarik Samanayarakhi Samiti, GMC Ward No 19 Nagarik Samiti,
Binapani Samiti, Patriotic People's Front, Journalists' Forum, Assam and a
good number of city-based media persons, later took out a procession through
the main thoroughfares in Panbazar-Dighalipukhuri area of the city. The
banner they carried read—'Uphold the dignity of the national flag.' They
also shouted slogans like Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Mataram.
Meanwhile, residents of various Guwahati localities also demonstrated great
zeal in upholding the cause espoused by the freedom fighters of the country
on the occasion of the 61 st Indian Independence Day. On the occasion, they
organized community celebrations at their respective localities with great
enthusiasm and hoisted the national tricolour also atop their houses.
Residents
of Ulubari organized a function at the Ulubari Chariali near the Bishnu Rava
Flyover. Captain Rabin Bordoloi, MLA from East Guwahati constituency hoisted
the flag.
Hoisting the flag, at Kumarpara Pachali, former Vice-Chancellor of Tezpur
University Prof Kishorie Mohan Pathak called upon the people to organize
community celebrations on the occasion of the Independence Day and Republic
Day. Community celebrations on such occasions are very important to keep the
democratic polity of the country vibrating, he said. In the
Kumarpara-Athgaon area, public functions to celebrate the occasion were also
organized by the GMC Ward No 19 Nagarik Committee and the Athgaon Pukhuripar
Yubak Sangha. Public celebrations on the occasion were also organized at
Fancybazar, Belotla, Chunchali, Maligaon, Maligaon Goshala, Pandu, Adabari
etc places. Bharosa, a Pandu-based NGO, organized a blood donation camp on
the occasion.
*Issued by Rupam Baruah on behalf of the organizers. *
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