Freedom fighter GARHWALI’S family in immense distress ! Appeal to PM

The highly distressed families of some of the freedom fighters and revolutioneries who’s laid down their lives for freeing the nation from the foreign yoke and suffered the whole life particularly Chandra Singh Garhwali, the hero of Peshavar episode of 1930 are still fighting for justice even after the seven decades of independence.

The second and third generation of Mahanayak Chandra Singh Garhwali are in financial and existential jeopardy not in a position to survive comfortably. Late Chandra Singh’s two sons Mohan and Anand Garhwali died in extreme financial distress and now shockingly their wives, sons and daughters are fighting for justice but of no awail.

Today they are so badly disturbed and perturbed by the fresh eviction notices issued by the Uttarakhand government’s forest department that they have been constrained to appeal to Indian prime minister to send them to neighbouring Pakistan rather than confronting harassment and victimisation in their own state.

It indeed sound’s strange and shocking that a country for which a valiant soldier, the then Hawaldaar major during the British rule in 1930 Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali refused to fire on the armless freedom fighters of Peshawar, defying the orders of general Ricket thus imprisoned for 15 years in Solitary Confinement in Abattabad Jail in Pakistan n later on in Naini Jail, his own family is today after 7 decades of independence in extreme jeopardy after having been issued eviction orders by declaring them as unauthorised encroachers.

The aggreaved family has urged the Modi government to send them to neighbouring Pakistan than declaring them as illegal encroachers in their own land in Uttarakhand.

It may be recalled that the family of Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali was allotted few bighas of land after great efforts by the then Uttar Pradesh government before the formation of separate Uttarakhand state near Kotdwar’s Haldukhaata Area but not given the fundamental owning rights called Pattadhaari on records despite hundreds of repeated reminders.

What is most worsening and shocking now is that the forest department of Kotdwar, Garhwal, Uttarakhand has declared them as illegal and arbitrary encroachers and issued them written notices asking them to evacuate the land with immediate effect.

This is a biggest betrayal and insult to the family of a revolutionery freedom fighter Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali whose entire life was dedicated for the country and 15 important years in the prisons in solitary confinement.

It is said that the INA under Dr. Subhash Chandra Bose was formed after being inspired from Chandra Singh Garhwali’s brave and valiant act of defying the British orders to fire on Pathans of Peshawar, then in Pakistan in 1930.

This episode really compels us to hang our heads in shame that the distressed family of the late freedom fighter has now to appeal to the PM to sent back to Pakistan in view of declaring them illegal encroacher in their own land and threatening them with eviction notices.

The Uttarakhand Journalists Forum urges upon the government of Uttarakhand to immediately withdraw the eviction notices issues to Garhwaliji’s family members living in Haldukhata, Kotdwar, Garhwal and issue authorised PATTAAS for this entire donated land to this family with immediate affect.