To commemorate the sacrifice of freedom fighters, the Keonjhar Progressive Citizens Forum organised a get-together of the family members of 26 registered freedom fighters in the district.
It was for the first time that the families of different freedom fighters were united. The forum resolved to build a Sahid Minar at Keonjhar in memory of the deceased patriots and preserve their photographs in the town community halls.
Family of late freedom fighters Kanhucharan Das, Kangali Panda, Narayan Chakra, Balaram Das, Bhagaban Chakra, Nityananda Jena, Ramakanta Patnaik, Sankarsan Patnaik, Ananda Dandpat, Bebar Munda, Niranjan Chakra and others attended. They were felicitated on the occasion. Former Wing Commander Kiran Sankar Sahu, Bimbadhar Behera, Parbati Das, Aswini Pattnaik, Sanjiv Barik were the guest speakers.