Question

seminar about freedoom fighters

Answer 1

Today as we freely move around in our country without anyone questioning or imposing any kinds of restrictions on us we feel satisfied and contended. But this satisfaction is due to the efforts taken by our freedom fighters to free our country from the British rule. Its because of our freedom fighters that today we are enjoying are freedom. Their satyagrahas, sacrifices, and tortures have resulted in the freedom that we enjoy today in our motherland India. Jawaharlal Nehru is one of the most important people in the list of Indian freedom fighters. After independence, Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister of free India. He was also the author of the famous book “panchsheela” Nehru was extremely fond of children. They simply loved and adored him. With his death, India lost a peerless leader of outstanding merits, rare gifts and great qualities of head and heart.

Mahatma Gandhi – the leader of all Indian leaders was born at porbander in Gujarat on 2nd October. He gave the people the weapon of non-violent struggle to fight injustice. He won freedom for India on 15th august 1947. He died on 30th January 1948. He is rightly known as the father of the nation. His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His father was a dewan of a princely state and his mother, a god fearing pious lady. Gandhiji is respected all over the world today. He shall never be forgotten.

Another famous Indian freedom fighter is Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Lokmanya Tilak) who was born in ratnagiri, a port in Maharashtra. His father was a teacher and a scholar. He was a brave boy and always fought for freedom, swarajya and self-rule. He also started two newspapers “Maratha” and “Kesari” due to which he was sent into prison. He wanted to spread the message of swarajya through his newspaper. He said, “swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”. He died on 1st august. People loved him and accepted him as their leaders and so he was called Lokmanya Tilak.

Answer 2

The confrontation between the Aligarh Muslim University and the BJP over celebrating the birth anniversary of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, an alumnus of the AMU, ended on Saturday after the university announced that it would hold a seminar to remember the freedom fighter’s contributions to nation building.

For its part, the BJP gave up its proposed plans to organise the celebrations at the AMU campus after the university vice-chancellor in a letter to the HRD Minister had expressed concerns about possible “communal conflagration” and ‘student unrest”.

“I have been assured that there will be no gathering at the university gate on December 1 on the occasion of the 128th anniversary of Raja Mahendra Pratap. The university will hold a seminar on the contributions of Raja Mahendra Pratap to freedom struggle as an academic activity,” AMU Vice-Chancellor Lt Gen (retd.) Zameer Uddin Shah said in a statement on Saturday.

“I had suggested that the anniversary celebrations, as per past traditions, could be held at the Raja Mahendra Pratap park. The concerned parties have accepted the proposal and we are more than happy on this development,” he said.

In a statement, the university stressed that Mahendra Pratap’s contribution to nation building deserved to be remembered but denied that it had ignored his contribution to the university.

“Like other friends of the founders of this institution, we hold Raja Mahendra Pratap in high respect. [He is] a distinguished alumnus of this institution [and we] have, among other things, his picture in the central library,” said AMU spokesperson Rahat Abrar.

Speaking about Mahendra Pratap’s role in the freedom struggle, the AMU VC said: “Raja Mahendra Pratap stood shoulder to shoulder with some of the leading Muslim clerics of that era like Maulana Mahmoodul Hasan and Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi in what is remembered as the ‘Silk Letter Movement’.” His role deserves a very high place in the history of freedom movement of India”.