Sixth Netaji Subhas Utsav Jay Hind 2020 would be held here for five days from January 17 to 21.
The festival would be dedicated to the country’s three brave daughters, Pritilata Waddedar, Kanaklata Baruah and Pari Bewa, who had been martyted during the freedom struggle, informed Utkala Bikasha Juba Parisada president Debiprasad Prusti.
Pritilata, then a graduate from Kolkata University, was trained by great Master Surya Sen, consumed cyanide after killing five British officials in the European Club in Chittagong, now in Bangladesh.
Kanaklata from Assam and Pari from Bhadrak in Odisha were in their teens when they were shot dead by British police for carrying the Tricolour flag at different places during the peaceful Quit India Movement in 1942. Kanaklata was marching in Gohpur in Assam while Pari was rallying in Iram Bhadrak.
Kanaklata, a girl of Barangabari village, was trained as a Mrutyu Bahini Swechhasebika (Death Squad Volunteer). Her youngest brother Kalicharan Baruah would be felicitated in the function on Friday morning. Students of Bangladesh and India would be given Jay Hind Scholarships. Personalities who have excelled in different fields would be felicitated on the first day of the Utsav.
The festival would be inaugurated at Buddha Auditorium here on Friday morning. Different programmes have been planned to be held in the Netaji birthplace at Odia Bazaar in Cuttack and at Puri.
Prusti has appealed to people, especially students, to join the Netaji Utsav Jay Hind festival. The Parisad is organising the festival since 2015. It is also carrying out Netaji Subhas Birth Soil Yatra all over the country to spread the messages of courage and unity of Netaji, his sacrifices and the Azad Hind Fauz formed by him among the new generation with to build up a vibrant nation of Netaji's dream.