To mark the sacrificing day of legendary martyrs, different social and voluntary organisations, including the National Youth Project (NYP), have announced to observe a Balidaan Divas in the country in a unique way on September 10.
They would observe a 12-hour fasting from 7 am to 7 pm on Thursday for strengthening communal harmony.
Revolutionary Bagha Jatin along with four young revolutionaries, Chittapriya Raychaudhury, Nirendranath Dasgupta, Manoranjan Sengupta and Jyotish Chandra Pal, had been martyred in a direct gun fight with British police at Chasakhanda Baleswar outskirts on September 10, 1943.
On the day, four youth revolutionaries were hanged in the Madras jail by British ruler. They belonged to different religions and to different provinces of India. They were Punjabi Sikh Fouza Singh, Kerali Muslim Vakkom Khader, South Indian Kerali Brahmin K Ananthan Aiyer and Tripura Bengali Satya Chandra Barddhan. They were members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Azad Hind Fouz.
They were especially trained in suicidal squad and intelligence division of the INA.Christian Bonefice Pereria was sentenced life imprisonment.
“The Balidan Divas will strengthen communal harmony and brotherhood, which are a need of the hour for the nation,” said NYP chief Dr SN Subba Rao.
NYP Odisha Convenor Madhusudan Das, and funtionaries Md Imran Alli, Bikram Swain, Haraprasad Mohapatra, Raghunath Mondal Debiprasad Prusti and Swarna Jena have appealed to general public, especially students and youth, to observe fasting on Thursday to pay homage to martyrs and enhance communal harmony.