Chief Minister Raman Singh extended hearty wishes of ‘Suraaji Tihaar' (Independence Day) in the 12th episode of his monthly radio programme ‘Raman Ke Goth’, aired from Akashwani on Sunday.
Singh talked in details about the various key events of India's freedom movement that took place in Chhattisgarh. He commemorated the martyrdom of great warriors of Chhattisgarh during freedom movement, and paid tribute to all the martyrs of State and nation. He said, “In 1857, a major protest against injustice and atrocity of ‘British raj’ broke out across the country, which we term as ‘first movement of Independence’. But in Chhattisgarh revolt against British rulers had commenced in year 1824, around 33 years before this first war of independence in 1857”
In the same sequence, he mentioned about Veer Gaid Singh of Abujhmad, saying that in 1824, Veer Gaid Singh was teaching guerrilla warfare to forest dwellers of Paralkot.