MISA prisoners should be cremated with state honours: Dr Nirvani

Raipur (Team Newsbuddy): On 25 June 1975, the then Prime Minister of the country, who had lost the election, Indira Gandhi imposed emergency in the country and took the entire power of the country in her hands and declared emergency in the entire country. During that time, social political activists, intellectuals, journalists, lawyers, doctors and professionals from all over the country who were opposing the emergency were imprisoned indefinitely. During that time, young men happily remained in jail to protect democracy by putting their careers at stake.

BJP’s state governments named the agitators who stood against Indira’s repression as democracy freedom fighters and issued a Samman Nidhi of Rs 25,000 per month.

Madhya Pradesh government took a step forward and gave state honours to the democracy freedom fighters when they die.
After meeting the Chief Minister of the state Vishnudev Sai, Dr. Saurabh Nirvani, the convener of the All India Chhattisgarhi Mahasabha, son of democracy freedom fighter Hridaynarayan Nirvani, demanded that on the lines of Madhya Pradesh, the last rites of democracy fighters and MISA prisoners should be performed with state honours in Chhattisgarh as well.

He has also sent a copy of this to the National Vice President of democracy freedom fighter Sachidanand Upasne.

It may be noted that former MLA from Bemetara, late Mahesh Tiwai, late Munshi Ram Thakur, late Dr. Virendra Kumar Dani were also imprisoned for 18 months during the Emergency