Directive made for beautification of the site
Ranchi, January 1: On the lines of the martyrs of the Gua firing incident, the martyrs of Kharsawan will be identified and their families will be given jobs.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said this on January 1 after reaching Kharsawan Shaheed Sthal. On this occasion, Chief Minister Hemant Soren was accompanied by his wife Kalpana Soren.
Hemant Soren paid tribute to the tribals martyred in the Kharsawan firing incident with traditional customs. He said that it has been 77 years since this firing incident. The government is trying to identify the families of the martyrs in the Kharsawan firing incident and give them government jobs.
Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that when the country became independent and people were dreaming. Then this firing incident happened.
“Then people reached here showing their alertness. This is a witness to how aware people were about their rights even at that time. Tribal society has always been aware,” said Soren.
Soren said that the people of Jharkhand remain connected with nature.
“If the world had followed the footsteps of the people of Jharkhand, then today we could have fought an epidemic like Covid in a better manner. Jharkhandis have sacrificed their lives to protect their honor. It is a matter of pride that today we are alive because of them and are carrying forward their martyrdom,” added Soren.
After paying tribute to Kharsawan martyrs, Hemant Soren reached the martyr site with his wife Kalpana Soren. During this, he directed Seraikela Kharsawan Deputy Commissioner Ravi Shankar Shukla to pay special attention to the beautification of the martyr site.
On 1 January 1948, four months after the country got Independence, the police opened indiscriminate fire on the tribals in Kharsawan.
Different claims are made about how many people died in this. The Kharsawan firing incident was then termed as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of independent India.
Incidentally, the rulers of Odisha proposed the merger of Saraikela and Kharsawan in Odisha. This proposal was not accepted by the tribal people there. However, the Indian government had accepted this proposal. The tribal people were protesting against this decision. On 1 January 1948, a large number of tribal people were protesting in Kharsawan with bows and arrows and their traditional weapons.
During this time, the Orissa police started firing indiscriminately on the protesting people, in which hundreds of people died. However, there is still doubt about the number of deaths. It is said that the dead bodies were thrown into a well located in Kharsawan Haat Maidan and soil was put on top.
