Union Information and Broadcasting Minister and Ludhiana MP Manish Tewari.
Ludhiana, November 15, 2013: Seeking the status of the National Martyr for Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha, the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister and Ludhiana MP Manish Tewari has written to the Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde saying that Sarabha’s contribution to the cause of national freedom was exceptional and unparalleled and needed to be recognised and acknowledged in the same measure.
Paying tributes to Shaheed Sarabha on the eve of his ninety-eighth martyrdom day, Tewari also sought the renaming of the Pakhowal Road after Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha. He said, it will be a great tribute to the great martyr who had given up a life of comfort in the United States and come back to India and joined the freedom movement.
Born and brought up in village Sarabha in Ludhiana district, Shaheed Kartar Singh went to study in the US, but was deeply drawn towards the plight of his countrymen who were being ruled by foreign rulers. He was hanged on November 16, 1915 for his participation in the freedom movement.
Tewari hoped that the Union Home Ministry will take a decision at the earliest. He assured that he will pursue the matter till its logical conclusion.