‘Odisha neglected in Netaji’s anniversary panel’, OPCC chief writes to PM Modi

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Even as a 85-member panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been fashioned for commemoration of the a hundred and twenty fifth delivery anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose this yr, discontentment is brewing in Odisha over the low illustration of the State, the birthplace of the legendary freedom fighter, within the committee.

Only three from Odisha together with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, MP Bhartruhari Mahtab and Principal Secretary within the PMO, PK Mishra have discovered place within the committee whereas as many as 26 members from West Bengal have been inducted in it. 

“Netaji was born in Jankinath Bhawan at Odia Bazaar, Cuttack. He spent his childhood and studied within the metropolis. The soil of the Millennium metropolis had impressed him in direction of patriotism and made him a fantastic freedom fighter who devoted his life for India’s independence. 

However, it’s matter of utmost remorse that the Centre has proven a step-motherly perspective to his delivery place and delivery state,” mentioned academician and retired professor of Ravenshaw College Anant Charan Sahu.Eminent author and Sahitya Akademi award winner Dr. Maheswar Mohanty too expressed his discontentment on ignoring Cuttack. “The nativity of a person cannot be ascertained by taking one’s mother tongue only. Those who say that Netaji belongs to Kolkata are wrong. He equally belongs to Odisha and Cuttack as he was born here,” mentioned Mohanty. 

The State Congress has additionally raised the difficulty of Odisha’s neglect in celebrating the nationwide hero. Protesting the choice process for structure of the high-level committee, Congress activists had staged a dharna in entrance of Janakinath Bhawan on Monday.  

Meanwhile, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, OPCC president Niranjan Patnaik mentioned many personalities of Odisha together with Governor and Chief Justice of High Court haven’t been included within the committee. “As the great leader was born at Cuttack, there should be more representation from the State,” he acknowledged.

He requested the Prime Minister to incorporate distinguished residents, historians, authors, journalists, jurists, specialists, freedom fighters and eminent individuals related to the Azad Hind Fauj (INA) from Odisha within the panel.

The delivery place and ancestral home ‘Janakinath Bhawan’ of Netaji in Cuttack has been transformed into Netaji museum by the Odisha authorities and memorabilia related to the good chief are being showcased there.The Centre ought to increase the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose museum at Cuttack and deliberations, paperwork, photographs and memorabilia obtainable with the households of Bose and different INA members throughout the nation must be introduced there on the event of the a hundred and twenty fifth delivery anniversary, he added.

NETA JI PANEL

CM Naveen Patnaik, MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, Principal Secretary within the PMO PK Mishra included from Odisha within the committee

Cong calls for inclusion of eminent individuals related to the Azad Hind Fauj