Tributes were paid on Monday at a prayer meeting held at Tasmia Academy on the 78th death anniversary of Abbas Tyabji. Speaking as the chief guest, the National Research Development Corporation chairman-cum-managing director, Dr Rajendra Dobhal said that any nation which forgets its history and its ancestors cannot progress.
"We owe them respect and regards because we got freedom due to their sacrifices only," he stressed. Abbas Tyabji Educational and Charitable Trust chairman Dr S. Farooq, in his address said that Justice Abbas Tyabji was a great national leader who had joined the freedom movement along with Mahatma Gandhi for freeing the country from the clutches of the imperialist rule of British. He settled in Mussoorie in 1930 in East Wood Estate and all national leaders like Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad and others used to have meetings with him in his house here. He breathed his last on June 9, 1936 in Mussoorie. His tomb was renovated two years back the Uttarakhand Government. He expressed pride at the fact that such an eminent national leader had stayed in Mussoorie.
Founder member of the Trust and senior advocate of the Supreme Court, Anil Naurial narrated the historical view of Tyabji's time and what he did during his life time.
Paripurnanand Painuli former MP of Tehri who is the secretary and treasurer of the Trust stressed on the need for fulfilling Tyabji's wish by providing education to girls and other activities concerning the upliftment of non creamy layer of Muslims and other communities through this Trust, which has to raise resources now.
Former chairperson of the State Women's Commission Shushila Balooni and vice chancellor of the Graphic Era University, Prof VK Tewari also expressed their views on the occasion.