BJP to observe Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, Congress to hold march against election malpractice
The city BJP under the leadership of senior lawyer and BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ujjwal Nikam to observe August 14 as the Vibhajan Vibhishika Divas, Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, as a fitting tribute to all those who lost their lives due to the partition of the nation and were displaced from their roots on August 14, 1947.
In 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared August 14 to be observed every year as Vibhajan Vibhishika Divas, Partition Horrors Remembrance Day to commemorate the sacrifice on August 14 during partition. He had stated that the declaration of such a day would remind present and future generations of Indians of the pain and suffering faced by the people during the partition.
'The city BJP will take out a rally of Vibhajan Vibhishika Divas at 5.30 pm on Thursday which will start at Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar memorial at Sarasbaug and end at Abhinav College chowk,' said city BJP chief Dheeraj Ghate.
On the other hand, the city Congress is going to hold a candle march at 7 pm from Gopalkrishna Gokhale statue at Good Luck chowk to the main gate of Fergusson College gate. 'Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has exposed the wrongdoing in electoral rolls. The BJP has grabbed power through wrong means by putting pressure on Election Commission of India and doing irregularities in electoral rolls. We are holding a candle march to condemn the BJP misusing power to retain its rule through improper means,' said city Congress chief Arvind Shinde.
Incidentally, the state Congress had conducted a two day workshop for its newly appointed office bearers on August 11 and 12 in the city.
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