A gate on the historic Dandi March at Dhauli gram panchayat near here was inaugurated by Rajya Sabha member Pyarimohan Mohapatra on the occasion of the Kranti Divas on Sunday.Addressing the gathering, Dhauli Sarpanch Rabi Maharana said the month of August has a special bearing in the freedom movement of India. On August 8, 1942, under the presidentship of Moulana Kalam Azad, the Congress Working Committee resolved that the British Government quit the country immediately.
The Government being panic arrested the top leaders of nationalist movement, including Gandhi on August 9. In spite of the arrest of top leaders, people became rebels and carried out the freedom movement, Maharana said and gave detailed information of Gandhiji’s Dandi March.To commemorate the Dandi March, the GP gate has been erected at cost of Rs 5 lakh by Maharana out of his personal fund. It is designed by sculptor Chandan Kumar Samal, who is a Professor of the Dhauli College of Art and Craft.