UP government renames Kakori Kand to 'Kakori Train Action'

Lucknow, August 09: On the anniversary of Kakori Train Robbery – one of the landmark events of the Indian independence movement, Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government has renamed the 'Kakori Kand' to 'Kakori Train actions.

 

UP govt renames it as the word 'Kand' denotes a sense of insult to this incident under India's Independence struggle. It should be noted that some British historians named it as kand which looks insulting.

 

During the event, UP CM said that As India is celebrating 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' to commemorate 75 years of its Independence, the Uttar Pradesh government on Monday celebrated the anniversary of the 'Kakori Train action' under the program 'Chauri Chaura Mahotsav' which is going to complete 100 years in 2022.

 

 

 

Governor Anandiben Patel and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath paid floral tributes to statues of Roshan Singh, Ram Prasad Bismil, and Rajendra Lahiri at Kakori Shaheed Smarak, on the anniversary of 'Kakori train action'. Several other ministers and officials were also present during the event.

 

The Kakori Train Robbery also known as the Kakori conspiracy was an armed robbery that took place on August 9, 1925. The Kakori Conspiracy (or Kakori train robbery) was a train robbery that took place at Kakori, it was planned by Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under the leadership of Ram Prasad Bismil. The primary objective of the Kakori Conspiracy was to gain funds for the HRA by taking the money from the British Administration by force.

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