To commemorate the first anniversary of Martyrdom of Congress leaders killed in the Maoist attack at Jeeram valley of Bastar, the Congress party will observe ‘Martyrdom day’ on May 25.
A statue of former leader of Opposition and founder of Salwa Judum movement Mahendra Karma who was killed in the attack, will be unveiled by State Congress president Bhupesh Baghel at Farasapal (Dantewada) in Bastar on the occasion.
It may be recalled that on May 25, last year, Maoists had attacked a convoy of the Congress leaders and workers at Jeeram valley when they were on a ‘Parivartan Yatra’
in Bastar.
Senior Congress leaders including Karma and Chhattisgarh Congress President Nand Kumar Patel were killed while veteran leader and former Union Minister Vidya Charan Shukla had succumbed to his injuries on June 11 last year. A large number of other Congress leaders, workers and security personnel had died in the attack.
Baghel will unveil Mahendra Karma’s statue in Faraspal (Dantewada) and a number of senior leaders including party’s Bastar District In-charge Rajesh Tiwari will also remain present on the occasion.
Special programmes will be held in Jagdalpur, Kharsia, Rajnandgaon, Dhamtari and Raipur. In-charge of respective Parliamentary constituencies, district presidents, office bearers and senior leaders besides party workers would participate in these programmes.
Apart from Baghel and Tiwari, a number of MlAs including Kawasi lakhma, Devti Karma, lakheshwar Baghel, Deepak Baij and Moham Merkam will also participate in the programmes to be organised at Jagdalpur and Dantewada districts.
In Kharsia, former Congress party State President and MlA Dhanendra Sahu, former leader of Opposition Ravindra Choubey, Baijnath Chandrakar, Atal Srivastava, Vivek Bajpai, MlA Umesh Patel and MlA lalkeet Singh Rathiya will participate in the programme.
In Rajnandgaon, Pradeep Chaubey, MlA Arun Vora, Kamleshwar Verma, Shailesh Nitin Trivedi, MlA Bholaram Sahu, MlA Dileshwar Sahu, MlA Girwar janghel and MlA Tejkunwar Netam will be present.
Similarly in Raipur, former Minister Satyanarayan Sharma, Mohammed Akbar, Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and others will participate in the programme.