On completion of the second year of the Netaji Subhas Birth Soil Yatra, the Utkala Bikasha Juba Parishad would organise a festival called Netaji Subhas Utsav at the Buddha Mandir here on January 17.
Netaji’s Azad Hind Fauz’s suicide squad member Saheed Wakkom Kader’s grandson Fauzy Wakkom and Kader Memorial committee secretary K Rajendran would be honoured at the function, informed Parishad’s Debiprasad Prusti. He is known as Bhagat Singh of south India.
Kader was hanged by British at the age of 24 only.
Family members of Netaji associates and and Azad Hind Fauz soldiers would also be honoured. Tributes will also be given to heroes of arm struggle of Independence movement, said Prusti.