A world-class Shaheedi Samarak is being constructed in the village of Masana in Kurukshetra
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, August 14 –
CM Nayab Singh Saini said that the suffering endured by those who experienced the horrors of the country's partition can never be forgotten. Considering their pains, PM Narendra Modi, on August 15, 2021, had announced from the Red Fort that August 14 would be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day to honor those who sacrificed during the partition. In line with this, today the Haryana government has begun observing this day as a state-level event under the 'Saint Mahapurush Samman Evam Vichar Prachar Prasar Yojana from Kurukshetra, said Sh. Nayab Singh Saini.
The Chief Minister was speaking as the chief guest at the state-level event organized by the Panchanand Memorial Trust in Kurukshetra district on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.
Saini, paying tribute to those who were killed in the bloodshed following India's partition, said that he prays to the Almighty that such unfortunate incidents never occur anywhere in the world. The partition of India is a tragedy about which almost half of the post-independence literature is filled. The pain of the partition can never be forgotten, he said.