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BJP MLA, mayor lead Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in Panvel
Panvel Municipal Corporation held a programme on Friday to mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, with BJP MLA Prashant Thakur and Mayor Nitin Patil urging citizens to remember the suffering caused by the…
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Panvel Municipal Corporation held a programme on Friday to mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, with BJP MLA Prashant Thakur and Mayor Nitin Patil urging citizens to remember the suffering caused by the 1947 Partition. Thakur said the younger generation must study history with awareness, while Patil stressed the need to prioritise national unity. Partition survivors Poonam Jethlani, Chandrakant Devani, Gopichand Wadhwa and Adv. Manohar Sachdev shared their families' experiences of displacement and rebuilding lives. The event also featured a solo performance on Kargil martyr Captain Vinayak Gore, an exhibition on Partition, and a two-minute silence.
The Indian Opinion
Partition remembrance risks becoming a comfortable ritual that politicians attend but few critically examine. The programme rightly honoured survivors, but such events often stay symbolic. Will the municipal corporation now include Partition history in Panvel's school curriculum or fund oral-history projects? That would test whether the call for national unity is matched by concrete action, not just microphone speeches and torchlight tributes.
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