Different social organisations led by Abani K Gaya, convener of Manav Adhikar Surakshya Manch (MASM), organised a condolence meeting at Bijipur here on Thursday in the memory of their departed leader and known social activist Dr A Raghunath Verma.
Social activists, trade union leaders, scribes and intellectuals joined the event (Sradhanjali Sabha) and paid floral tribute on the photograph of late Dr Verma who after prolonged illness died on March1.
Dr Verma was associated with many city-based socio-cultural organisations and representing Manav Adhikar Surakshya Manch (MASM) as its advisor. Though Dr Verma had unsuccessfully contested from Brahmapur Parliament Constituency twice in 2009 and 2014, but he was known as a good social worker and organiser and above all, a good human being.
The speakers in their address recalled the contributions of late Dr Verma for resolving different problems of the society and his ungrudging fight for justice to common man.