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Bhubaneswar (Orissa) : Entire Orissa on Saturday remembered Netaji Subash Chandra Bose and offered floral tributes on his 113th birth anniversary. The State also recollected the contribution of Veer Surendra Sai on his birth anniversary.
Netaji was on born January 23, 1897 while Sai too on same date but in the year 1809.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and several others paid floral tributes at their statue in the State Assembly premises while separate functions where held at Cuttack and Sambalpur city of the State, where these two great son were took birth century back.
Leaders of Congress, BJP, BJD, Odisha Loka Dal, Kalinga Sena, JMM, CPI, CPI(M), Samruddha Odisha, Forward Bloc also marked the occasion by offering floral tributes and hosting cultural activities here at Rasulgarh Square in State Capital.
Meanwhile, Netaji lovers were disappointed in Cuttack city and elsewhere in the State after the authorities failed to make light and sound show at Netaji Museum functional.
While Culture Minister Devi Prasanna Mishra inaugurated the new galleries of the Museum, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik opened the gate this evening.
Bose, who presumed to have died August 18, 1945 although this is disputed, was a legend in the Indian independence movement.
Bose was elected president of the Indian National Congress for two consecutive terms, but had to resign from the post following ideological conflicts with Mahatma Gandhi and after openly attacking the Congress' foreign and internal policies.
Many historians put Sai parallel with Napoleon of the French Revolution of 1789. The heroic achievement of Sai and his uncommon sacrifice for the cause of his people have few parallels in history.
His role in shaping the cause of the Revolution of 1857 and 1858 in the hilly tracts of Western Orissa was highly inspiring.
The British became a formidable power in the World after the victory of the Crimean War (1856) and their success in crushing the Revolution in India in 1858.
Veer Sai carried on an uncompromising war against the forces of imperialism till 1862. These four years were the momentous period for the last phase of the Indian Revolution and Sai was the torch bearer.
Sai was a born rebel and an uncompromising enemy of the British Raj from his young age. His revolution against the British commenced from 1827 when he was only eighteen years of age and continued till 1862 when he surrendered and even after that, until he was finally arrested in 1864 - a total period of 37 years.
He suffered imprisonment in Hazaribagh Jail for 17 years in course of his revolutionary career and after his final arrest for another term of 20 years including his detention of 19 years in the remote Asirgarh hill fort till he breathed his last there.
