Naveen Pays Humble Tributes to Freedom Fighter Birsa Munda on Birth Anniversary

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik paid his humble tributes to revolutionary freedom fighter and tribal leader Birsa Munda on his birth anniversary today.

Taking to Twitter, the Odisha CM remembered the revolutionary leader’s contribution towards country’s freedom movement.

Birsa Munda’s sacrifice for the protection of the rights of the tribals and the country’s freedom movement will always be remembered, the CM tweeted.

Birsa Munda, the tribal revolutionary of the British era, was born on November 15, 1875. Hailing from Munda tribe, Birsa was a 19th-century folk hero who is known for his Millenarian movement to protest against forceful land grabbing by the British government.

He died on June 9, 1900, in a British jail.

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