Venkaiah Naidu pays tributes to martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh massacre
The Hindu
The Vice President took to twitter to speak about the nation’s debt to the martyrs.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday paid tributes to the martyrs of the , saying no matter how many years pass, the pain the incident inflicted on the hearts of every Indian will always remain the same. Hundreds of people were killed by British troops on Baisakhi in 1919 as they fired indiscriminately on an unarmed gathering of thousands who had assembled in in Punjab. “My humble tributes to the brave martyrs who were massacred in Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919. No matter how many years pass, the pain that the Jallianwala Bagh massacre inflicted in the hearts of every Indian will always remain the same,” the Vice President Secretariat tweeted quoting Mr. Naidu.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.