GUWAHATI: Even as the country is celebrating its 71st Republic
Day on Sunday next, an Assam-based forum of nationalists in Northeast
India has urged the people to pay tributes to countless martyrs of
the country’s freedom struggle hoisting the national flag in every
nook and corner of the region, surrounded by various foreign nations.
Commenting on the present situation where thousands of Assam residents
are agitating against the citizenship amendment act 2019 (CAA) with
an aim to keep the constitutional values intact and many other
agitators continue demanding benefits out of different clauses of
the Constitution, the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) believes
that more people this time would pay respect to the Tri-colour.
Bharat (India) achieved independence from
the British colonial forces in 1947 and adopted its Constitution on January 26, 1950. Since then the day has been observed as R-Day every year where all known and unknown martyrs of the freedom movement are tenderly remembered saluting the national flag.
“Prior to our independence, millions of freedom fighters symbolically
set January 26 as our Independence Day and continued the movement. It
is the moral responsibility of every Indian national to pay homage to
those martyrs on both I-Day and R-Day by hoisting the Tri-colour as
it symbolizes the suffering and sacrifices of those freedom
fighters,” said a PPFA statement.
The brief statement, issued in different languages including
Assamese, Nagamese, Mizo, Bengali, Hindi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Telugu,
Tamil, Kannada, Urdu, Nepali, Tibetan, Balochi, Kurdish and English, reminded that a number of Assamese martyrs including Kanaklata Barua, Mukunda Kakoti, Kushal Konwar, Tilak Deka, Bhogeswari Phukanani, Nidhanu Rajbangshi, Kamala Miri, Lerela Boro, Madan-Rauta, Hemoram Patar, Gunabhi Bordoloi, Dayal Panika, etc., laid down their lives admiring for the sake of keeping Tri-colour fly high.
The forum comprising individuals from different fields of activity
asserted that the national flag does not belong to any government or
political parties alone, rather it’s a priceless property for every
Bharatiya who feels proud of his identity enriched with a glorious
past. It also emphasised on creating proper awareness about the great
nation eradicating all kinds of prejudices and confusions among the
mass.