Friday, 5 February 2021
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the centenary celebrations of the Chauri Chaura incident on February 4 by way of videoconferencing. February 4, 2021 marks 100 years of the ‘Chauri Chaura’ incident, a landmark occasion within the nation’s battle for independence.
PM Modi additionally launched a postal stamp devoted to the Chauri Chaura incident, to mark the start of the occasion. The state authorities of Uttar Pradesh has deliberate a 12 months of celebrations in all 75 districts of the state within the reminiscence of the martyrs.
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What is Chauri Chaura incident?
- On February 4, 1922, a gaggle of freedom fighters had set ablaze a police station at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district of the then United Province (now Uttar Pradesh) in British India, to protest in opposition to the high-handedness of the British regime.
- The incident claimed the lives of 22 policemen and three freedom fighters.
- As many as 19 freedom fighters got capital punishment for this one incident.
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