Different socio-cultural organisations, political leaders and common people paid rich tributes to legendary freedom fighter Veer Surendra Sai and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on their birth anniversary on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people gathered at Khinda, the birth place of this freedom fighter and paid homage to the hero of the freedom struggle. At his birth place, the Surendra Sai Smruti Sansad organised a meeting, which was attended by Chairman of Western Odisha Development Council (WODC) Kishore Mohanty, Rengali MLA Ramesh Patua and Surendra Sai’s descendent Lal Fakira Sai. The members of the Smruti Sansad also organised several cultural programmes in the evening.
At Sambalpur, also programmes were organised and the statue of Veer Surendra Sai at Jail Chowk of the city was garlanded.
The district administration and the Odisha Sanskrutik Samaj jointly organised a meeting in the evening in the memory of the hero. The speakers highlighted the contribution and uniqueness of Sai’s freedom struggle.
A road march was also organised during the occasion. More than 1, 000 students from different schools of the city participated in the road march and moved round the city. Similarly, a Mashal rally was organised at Burla.