Tributes paid to Goa Liberation Movement hero Karnail Issru

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 16

Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu and Cooperation Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Sunday paid floral tributes to Shaheed Karnail Singh Issru during a state-level function held at Issru village of the district.

They garlanded the statue of the martyr in the village. Charanjit Kaur, wife of Shaheed Karnail Singh Issru was also honoured on the occasion.

Addressing the gathering on the martyrdom day of great revolutionary Shaheed Karnail Singh Issru, who laid down his life during the liberation of Goa from the Portuguese regime, here, at his native village, the ministers said: “We Punjabis inherited the spirit of sacrifice from the great Sikh Gurus, especially Guru Arjun Dev and Guru Teg Bahadur who made supreme sacrifice against the tyranny unleashed by the Mughals, for the sake of humanity.”

They said the legacy of self-sacrifice perpetuated from one generation to other and was one of the major force behind Punjab’s great contribution to the country’s freedom struggle.

They said it was on record that Punjabis, who account for two per cent of country’s total population, had made huge sacrifices in terms of life imprisonment, capital punishment and even exile in captivity (Kalpani).

They said the enormous contribution of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sohan Singh Bhakna and several others would continue to inspire younger generations.

They said there would be no shortage of funds for the ancestral village of Shaheed Karnail Singh Issru. Whenever MLA Gurkirat Singh Kotli or the village panchayat wants to carry out some development project, the government would allocate funds for the development of the village.

AAP pays homage

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leadership, led by party’s state president and MP Bhagwant Mann and Leader of Opposition (LoP) Harpal Singh Cheema, on Independence Day, paid homage to the hero of the Goa Liberation Movement, martyr Karnail Singh Issru. The leaders paid tributes at the memorial of the martyr and raised revolutionary slogans as a a tribute to freedom fighters.