When the whole nation is anxious to know Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s disappearance mystery, the Odisha Government has forgotten Azad Hind Fouz hero Sheikh Ramzaan Quereshi who has still bullet injury marks in his knee he had received from British police.
Quereshi of Padmapur area had joined the Azad Hind Fouz in his early twenties on the clarion call of Netaji to make India free.
“He has bullet injury marks in his knees. When he describes his old memories of the Azad Hind Fouz, he speaks like a lion,” said Kailash Dash, a villager of Quereshi.
Quereshi now lives a miserable life with his second wife, who is too old, and his married son Guddu Alli Mohemmed and daughter Guddi Halimman.
“Ramzaan Babu now gets Rs 300 as old-age pension. His son Guddu is a bangle chudi seller and does umbrella repairing work seasonably. At times, he works as a daily labourer too. Earlier, the INA man was selling bangles and repairing umbrellas to earn his livelihood,” informed Netaji Janma Mati Yatra convenor Debiprasad Prusti.
Prusti informed that Padmapur MlA Pradeep Purohit brought Ramzaan Babu to the public notice first. The MlA would felicitate the hero at his residence on Sunday.
He said the whole team of Netaji Janma Mati Yatra would visit the hero soon.