NewzVille Desk
Union Home Minister, Amit Shah today inaugurated the Martyrs’ Memorial of the First War of Independence of 1857 in Ambala, Haryana. On this occasion, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and Union Minister Manohar Lal, along with many other dignitaries, were present.
On this occasion, in his address, Shah said that on this very land, on 10th May 1857, the revolutionary heroes had sounded the bugle of armed revolution against British rule, and from here that revolution had spread like fire, leaving the entire world astonished. British-inspired historians of leftist ideology termed the freedom struggle of 1857 a mere revolt. It may have been a revolt for the British, but Veer Savarkar had said that the revolution of 1857 was not a revolt for the children of Mother India, but a freedom struggle. It was the revolution of 1857 that ignited the flame of freedom in the heart of every citizen of this vast country stretching from the Himalayas to Kanyakumari and from Gangasagar to Somnath.
HM Shah said that in this great struggle of 90 years from 1857 to 1947, countless martyrs sacrificed everything they had, and only then did we get the good fortune to see present-day India and Mother India. On the foundation of those martyrs’ sacrifices, today under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, we can envision a developed India. Building on the sacrifices of those martyrs and strengthening democratic institutions for 80 years, we stand with dignity before the entire world. The warriors of the 1857 revolution — Nana Saheb Peshwa, Rani Lakshmibai, Tatya Tope, Begum Hazrat Mahal, and many other fighters — displayed their valour and made the supreme sacrifice.
