The birth anniversary of former Chief Minister Nabakrushna Choudhury was celebrated in different parts of the town here.
The Manav Adhikar Surakshya Manch (MASM), an outfit fighting for protection of human rights, held the event in the KC Girls’ High School premises at Gosaninuagaon. Hundreds of school and college students, local denizens, lawyers, civil officials, scribes and a few freedom fighters attended the function.
Speaking on the occasion, Manch coordinator advocate Abani Kumar Gaya highlighted late Choudhury’s immense contribution to the freedom movement in country and lauded his simplicity and honesty during his tenure as Chief Minister of the State.
He urged the people to follow the ideology of the late freedom fighter and social reformer to form a better, prosperous, and liquor-free State.
Nabakrushna Babu was one of the most progressive Chief Ministers of the State whose contribution in the field of agriculture, irrigation, education, literacy and above all, his efforts to get official language tag for Odia and abolition of Zamindari system are quite praiseworthy, many speakers said.
Among others, Manch president Upendranath Mishra, general secretary Maguni Nahak, social worker A Raghunath Verma, Bansidhar Bhuyan, Bibhuprasad Sahu, Hadibandhu Mali, Syambasiva Rao, Chittaranjan Panda and Shyamsundar Sadangi joined.