Maharashtra Govt To Commemorate Partition Horrors, Urges Mass Participation Across Public Venues

Mumbai: The BJP-led Mahayuti government will commemorate Partition Horrors Remembrance Day across the state today (August 14). Divisional Commissioners and District Collectors have been asked to host various events to “create awareness about the poignant memories and sufferings of people during Partition”.

In another development, the department of skills, employment and innovation, led by the BJP minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha, will celebrate 150 years of Vande Mataram. Lodha will head a 7member committee for this.

Remembrance to Be Marked Across Public Spaces

As per a circular, the commemoration of the remembrance should be organised in banks, post offices, railway stations, airports, shopping malls, educational institutes, petrol pumps, skill development centres and vocational training institutes, to name a few. The administration should make efforts for the participation of maximum people besides hosting programmes where freedom fighters, eminent senior citizens and public representatives are to be invited. People who have suffered the partition ordeal should also be invited, the state circular states.

Significantly, the circular directs the government machinery to take precautions so that the feelings of sections/groups in society are not hurt. The cautionary advice appears twice in the two-page circular. The event is about the tragedy of partition and the woes of people, hence it should not hurt the feelings of any community, it states.