Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal has assured the freedom fighters from the State that their demands would be considered sympathetically.
India got Independence due to the hard work and supreme sacrifices made by our freedom fighters, he said while giving the assurance while speaking at the residence of chairman, Swatantrata Senani Samman Samiti, lalti Ram, in Panchkula, near here.
He enquired about the well-being of INA soldiers, widows of freedom fighters and their dependents who had come from various districts of the state and urged them to inculcate in children the spirit of love for the motherland.
The freedom fighters presented the Chief Minister with their charter of demands. It includes one per cent reservation for the fourth generation of freedom fighters in educational institutions, removal of condition of 75 per cent disability in case of son in getting pension given to unmarried and unemployed sons and daughters of freedom fighters, inclusion of dependents of the soldiers of INA in the ex-servicemen’s category for reservation and pension to the first generation successors of INA freedom fighters.
On the occasion, Manohar lal also honoured the freedom fighters.