Government to take over ancestral house of Pahari Gandhi: CM
Author(s): City Air NewsArvind SharmaShimla/Dharamshala, July 10, 2017: Himachal government has decided to take over the ancestral house of Pahari Gandhi Baba Kanshi Ram and convert it into a heritage monument. This was revealed by Chief...
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Jul 10, 2017 09:30
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Shimla/Dharamshala, July 10, 2017: Himachal government has decided to take over the ancestral house of Pahari Gandhi Baba Kanshi Ram and convert it into a heritage monument.
This was revealed by Chief Minister Shri Virbhadra Singh here today.
He said that the government would take over the ancestral house of Baba Kanshi Ram, popularly known as Pahari Gandhi, who was a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and an activist for independence born in village Padhyaal near Dadasiba in Dehra Sub-division of district Kangra. He was involved in spreading Mahatma Gandhi's message through his poetry and songs in the Pahari languages after Jallianwala Bagh massacre which had deep impact upon him. He vowed to wear black clothes till India gets independence.
He was arrested as many as 11 times for spreading patriotic messages through Pahari poems and verses against British Raj and almost spent nine years of his life in different jails.
In the year 1984, former Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi also released a postal stamp in name of Baba Kanshi Ram
On his 135th Birth anniversary falling on 11th July, the state government has decided to take over his house, preserve it and also to erect a memorial in his memory, stated the Chief Minister.
