Prime Minister Narendra Modi would on Tuesday visit revolutionary Chandrashekhar Azad's birthplace at Bhabhra village in Alirajpur District to launch this year's Independence Day celebrations.Besides, elaborate security arrangements have been made at the village. Heavy police force has been deployed at the venue.
Notably, August 9 is the anniversary of the launch of the Quit India Movement by the All-India Congress Committee demanding an end to British rule in India after Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, 1942, gave a call to ‘Do or Die’ in his Quit India speech at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai.
The day, also commemorates 'Kakori train robbery' carried out on August 9, 1925, by Chandrashekhar Azad and his associates Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Rajendra lahiri, and others, as part of their revolutionary struggle against the colonial regime.
Modi's visit to Bhabhra village also marks the start of the government's '70 Saal Azaadi, Yaad Karo Kurbani', a 15-day campaign to commemorate India's struggle for freedom from colonial rule.
After taking part in train robbery in Kakori (near lucknow), whose aim was to loot money belonging to the British government, Azad had fled to Jhansi.
He lived in Jhansi for some time before moving to the forest near Satar river in Orchha. This area now falls in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh district.
The Azad memorial on the bank of Satar says the revolutionary lived in this area posing as a Sanyasi called Harishankar, a name given by another freedom fighter, Rudranarayan Singh.