Goa Liberation Day be celebrated as "Svatantryapurti Divas" at National
Level
Mr Shantaram Naik M.P. has demanded that 19th December, which is Goa’s
liberation Day, should be celebrated, at the National level, as
"Svatantryapurti Divas" as it is with Goa’s liberation only, that
India’s freedom was complete.
Making a special mention in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Mr Naik said
that when India was liberated on 15th August 1947, the territories of
Goa, Daman & Diu were under Portuguese rule.
We could see the dawn of freedom in the country except on our land for
there was no Mahatma Gandhi in Goa, he said.
Besides, Goa was under Portuguese Rule while rest of the part of the
country was under British regime which collapsed under Mahatma Gandhi's
non-violent non-cooperation movement, he said.
Mr Naik said, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was kind and gracious enough to
say that India's freedom became complete only when Goa was liberated.
In a letter written by him to late Shri Chandrakant Keni, a Goan writer,
on 20th December 1961, Nehruji said "It may be said that with the
freedom of Goa, India herself is more free. Thus far India's freedom was
incomplete."
When Nehruji visited Goa in May 1963, he repeated his views that it is
with Goa's freedom only that India's freedom was complete and rightfully
so. How could anyone say that India has achieved freedom when a part of
it, however small it may be, was under foreign domination, Mr Naik said
in his special mention.
Goa has entered this year in the 50th year of it's independence and
programes and functions are arranged by the State Government on the
occasion of its Golden Jubilee year to be held throughout the year, Mr
Naik said.
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