Freedom fighters and their family members will be the part of the foundation stone laying ceremony of the upcoming world-class Jang-e-Azadi Memorial at Kartarpur in Jalandhar district.
The direction to invite the freedom fighters was given by the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday to the Jang-e-Azadi Memorial Foundation member secretary Dr Barjinder Singh Hamdard while reviewing the arrangements of the ceremony scheduled to be held on October 12.Meanwhile, Dr Hamdard apprised the Chief Minister that the Foundation was making elaborate arrangements for the mega event, expected to be attended to by more than 50,000 persons.
He said that the executive committee was making all-out efforts to make this function a grand success, besides various sub-committees had also been constituted to oversee the arrangements pertaining to invitation, stages, cultural program, traffic, transport, parking and other logistics.It may be recalled that to showcase the rich legacy and enormous contribution of Punjabis in the Indian freedom struggle, SAD-BJP government under Badal’s guidance had taken a unique initiative to construct a world class state-of-the-art memorial over an area of 25 acre at Kartarpur at a cost of Rs200 crore.