Social media abuzz with tributes to Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha

Mahesh Sharma

Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 24

The social media was abuzz with officer-bearers and activists of various organisations of the town and surrounding localities paying tributes to Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha on his birth anniversary on Thursday.

Besides posting portraits of Sarabha and his contemporaries, the enthusiasts exchanged patriotic messages with friends and members of various social groups.

Councillor Deepak Sharma and social activist Navdeep Sharam Rajan said their friends and acquaintances had given warm response to the call for eradicating drug addiction on the birth anniversary of Sarabha on Thursday.

Principal, MGMN Senior Secondary School, Ahmedgarh, Viney Goyal, advised class in-charges to disseminate information on various stages of the life of the martyr among students.

Alumnus of Punjab Agricultural University and NRI, Dr Sanjeev Ahluwali, shared a peep into patriotic life of Sarabha, which was uploaded on the social media by former president of the Punjabi Sahit Academy, Dr Gurbhajan Gill.

The subscriber highlighted association of Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha with Gadar Movement and Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna, besides recollecting various episodes of the freedom struggle. Appreciating initiative taken by the author of the post and subscribers forwarding and sharing it, president of the Municipal Council, Suraaj Mohammad, held that enthusiasts and followers of Sarabha were motivated to pay tributes despite no functions being held in the area.

Though no formal function was organised to remember the martyr, government officials greeted residents by posting special cards carrying portrait of Sarabha with the message, “Punjab government salutes Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha on his birth anniversary.”

Leaders demand ‘national martyr’ status for Sarabha

On the birth anniversary of Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP, Sadhu Singh, paid tributes to the martyr at his memorial in Sarabha village on Thursday. The Member of Parliament (MP) remembered the sacrifice of Sarabha and other martyrs during the ceremony. He assured to take up the matter of giving Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha a ‘national martyr’ status in the Parliament. The Barnala MLA, Meet Hayer, AAP (Punjab) youth president Manjinder Sidhu, AAP Malwa Zone 2 president Gurdit Sekhon and party’s state spokesperson Darshan Shankar were present on the occasion.

Bains pays tributes

Meanwhile, the Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha Market Association, Gill Road, Ludhiana, celebrated birth anniversary of the martyr on Thursday. While paying tributes to Sarabha, the Lok Insaaf Party chief, MLA Simranjit Singh Bains said in the past 70 years successive governments at the Centre had not accorded ‘martyr’ status to Kartar Singh Sarabha, who sacrificed his life for the country. Bains appealed to the Centre to give ‘martyr’ status to Sarabha at the earliest.