To realise the dreams of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, political leaders, bureaucrats and common citizens should restrain themselves from hankering after power and money, opined speakers at the inaugural ceremony of the 7th National Netaji Subhas Utsav organised by the Utkala Bikash Juba Parisad here on Sunday.Not only Netaji, the freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of India had the same dreams. An India free from poverty, hunger, unemployment, oppression , corruption and communalism. But their dreams have been shattered by the hunger for power and the greed to accumulate wealth, the speakers said. The utsav is dedicated to three martyred Chapekar brothers, Damodar Balakrushna and Basudev,who were hanged by British for killing the tyrannical British Plague Commissioner of Pune WC Rand on June 22, 1897 .
The function was presided over by Parisad president and national convenor of Netaji Subhas Birth Soil Yatra Debi Prusty. It was inaugurated by Loksevak Mandal chairperson Deepak Malviya and National Youth project director S N Subbarao Vaijee. Among others, Simantini Jena, Jyoti Mishra, Prof Chakradhar Tripathy also spoke.