Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that from next year on Bhopal Gaurav Diwas, June 1 will be a holiday in Bhopal. A research institute focused on the history of Bhopal will be established with the aim of making the coming generation familiar with the history of Bhopal. On Bhopal Gaurav Divas, CM Chouhan reached Bhopal Gate and felicitated the Safai Mitras.
While extending greetings of Bhopal Merger Day, he said that as a result of the sacrifices of innumerable people and the struggle of worriors, on June 1, 1949, two years after the country’s independence, Bhopal became an integral part of India.
Chief Minister Chouhan unfurled the national flag amid shower of colour-gulal, flowers and fireworks. He paid floral tributes to Bharat Mata after recitation of Jana-Gana-Mana and remembered the martyrs of merger by lighting a mashal (torch). Tribute was also paid by offering flowers on the portraits of the martyrs. CM Shri Chouhan also visited the picture exhibition focused on the Bhopal merger movement.
Chouhan said that the new generation does not know that Bhopal did not become independent on August 15, 1947 when India became independent. The Nawab refused to merge Bhopal with India. In this situation the merger movement started in Bhopal. He paid tributes to the martyrs of Boras remembering the struggle of respected Uddhav Das Mehta, Balkrishna Gupta and Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma. CM Chouhan honoured about 100 Safai Mitras by offering them shawls. It was informed that sanitation workers are being honoured in all the wards of Bhopal.
Medical Education Minister Vishwas Kailash Sarang said that with the initiative taken by CM Chouhan to celebrate Bhopal’s Gaurav Diwas on June 1, the coming generation will be aware of the history of Bhopal. Mayor Smt. Malti Rai wished the people of Bhopal on the occasion of Gaurav Diwas. Former Mayor Shri Alok Sharma was present.
