On Independence Day, Mahatma Gandhi was not in New Delhi. Instead, he was busy attending all-faith meetings in a dilapidated house called Hyderi Manzil, in central Kolkata’s [then Calcutta] Beliaghata neighbourhood. He had arrived in the city on August 13 following the communal riots ahead of the Partition.
To commemorate the day of Gandhi’s arrival, the All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation will take out a procession in Beliaghata on August 13.
Two meetings which will be attended by intellectuals such as former Supreme Court Judge Asok Kumar Ganguly, former Jadavpur University V-C Ashoknath Basu, former PAC chairman and IAS officer Sukhbilas Barma, among others will also be held.
AIPSO general secretary professor Anjan Bera hailed the exemplary role played by Gandhi in handling the riots. “Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the then-Prime Minister of
— source newsclick.in | Sandip Chakraborty | 11 Aug 2023