Pain of partition can never be forgotten: CM Saini

The chief minister was speaking as the chief guest at the state-level event organised by the Panchanand Memorial Trust in Kurukshetra district to observe ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’

While paying tributes to the victims of the partition, Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Wednesday said that the country had to go through partition to attain independence and the pain can never be forgotten.

Saini, paying tribute to those who were killed in the bloodshed, said the tragedy about which almost half of the post-independence literature is filled and the pain of the partition can never be forgotten. (HT Photo)

The chief minister was speaking as the chief guest at the state-level event organised by the Panchanand Memorial Trust in Kurukshetra district to observe ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15, 2021 had announced from the Red Fort that August 14 would be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day to honour those who sacrificed during the partition. In line with this, the Haryana government has been observing this day as a state-level event under the ‘Saint Mahapurush Samman Evam Vichar Prachar Prasar Yojana’ from Kurukshetra,” he said.

Saini, paying tribute to those who were killed in the bloodshed, said the tragedy about which almost half of the post-independence literature is filled and the pain of the partition can never be forgotten.