Rich tributes to C R Das on his birth anniversary

Silchar, Nov 6: Citizens’ Rights Preservation Committee (CRPC), Assam, along with the students and teachers of Sarba Shikha Mission’s Jyoti Kendra observed birth anniversary of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, who was a renowned barrister and a major figure in the Indian independence movement, by paying floral tributes at his statue at tiol Highway point on Sunday. Chittaranjan Das was adorned as Deshbandhu meaning ‘Friend of the tion’. He played an instrumental role in Anushilan Samiti and Indian independence movement. He was also an ace Indian politician and founder leader of the Swaraj (Independence) Party in Bengal under British Raj.

 Sadhan Purkayastha of CRPC said that a new chapter on C R Das should be incorporated into the syllabus so that students can know him and his contributions to the tion better. Among others present at the occasion included Dr Subir Kar, former head, Department of Bengali, Assam University C R Das was a leading figure in Bengal at the time of the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1919-1922, and initiated the ban on British clothes, setting an exemplary example by wearing Khadi clothes after burning his own European clothes. It should be mentioned here that, his clothes, at one time, used to be tailored and washed in Paris and he used to maintain a permanent laundry in Paris so that he can ship his clothes to Calcutta. However, Deshbandhu sacrificed this luxury when he plunged into the freedom struggle.