The denizens of Hazaribagh gave their warm salute to the most loved freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his birth anniversary. A symbolic Rangoon to Delhi March was organised by the Bengali Association and Union Club & library in which students of about 40 schools and colleges took part. The famous Keshav Hall ground where Netaji held two public meetings in 1938 and 1940 was symbolic Rangoon in the morning and symbolic Delhi in the noon.
In the morning at about 9:45 SP Akhilesh Jha flagged off the march which was led by an open jeep having portrait of Netaji, followed by bikers group and girls on cycle. Before the start of the march MlA Barhi Manoj Kumar Yadav raised the flag of Indian National Army and with SP Jha released the balloons as a sign of peace, fearlessness and eagerness to achieve the goal.
In his presidential address DC Sunil Kumar praised the organizers and said that to curb the evil forces Netaji had shown us a path of use of power which still helps us in recognizing our strength. He recalled that it was due to Netaji’s fight of independence that in Andaman and Nicobar Indian tricolor was hoisted much before 1947.
The symbolic ‘Dilli Chalo’ march passed through the important roads of Hazaribagh town. The denizens of Hazaribagh welcomed and cheered the participants in their area. Tableaux, poster cards, banners, slogans, live portraits, drum beats and bagpiper band of Sainik School, Tillaiya playing the tune of ‘Kadam Kadam Badaye Ja’ were the center of attraction of the march.
In the noon at about 11:30 the march reached its destination where District Board Chairman Brajkishor Jaiswal received, welcomed and felicitated the participating teams. After raising the Indian tricolor at symbolic Red Fort he stressed upon the need to spread Netaji’s ideology and efforts among the youth of this country in his address.
On this occasion the organizing committee honored Commandant CRPF Munna Kumar Singh for the good social services of their battalion. The members of Bengali association gave a warm welcome to all the guests including the local boy SDO Sandeep Kumar. Bengali association and union club & library is organizing this program since last fourty years. It was late Prof. SK Moitra who made the canvas big after inception of Jharkhand and turned Netaji’s birthday at Hazaribagh as a festival for every religion since last 10-12 years.
Coordinator of this program Ranjit Chatterjee welcomed the guests, President of Bengali association Dr Sajal Mukharjee presented vote of thanks and Prof Sukalyan Moitra anchored the program. Abhijeet Sen, Ajit Ghosh, Ajit Banarjee, Prof. AS Mitra, Tapas Chakravorti, Chinmay Sarkar¸ Raja Koshiyari, Vishwajit Chakraborty, Dr Sandeep Mukharjee, Dr S Samanta, Dr. Kakoli Roy Choudhary, Dr. SK Mallik, Indranil Sarkar, T Roy and many others played an important role in making the occasion successful.