Freedom fighter Mohammed Bazi passed away at hishis Sunari street residence here on Thursday. He was 102 and a bachelor.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik expressed grief over the demise of the centenarian freedom fighter and conveyed his condolence to the members of the bereaved family.
Bazi had participated in the country’s freedom struggle against the British on Mahatma Gandhi’s call in 1931 leaving his school education. He was imprisoned twice by the British administration.
After returning from jail, he established a Gandhi Ashram at Bijapur village in Jhorigam block in Nabarangpur district.
Bazi had also joined the Sarvodaya movement and Bhoodan movement after Independence. He had attended the tea party at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi when Pranab Mukherjee was the President on the occasion of Kranti Diwas observed to remember the historic Quit India Movement.