HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, Aug 29: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressing displeasure on circulating a wrong photograph of Kanaklata Barua, the young martyr of India’s freedom struggle from Gohpur in Assam, urged the Government to take the pain to paint a proper portrait of Birbala Kanaklata with the help of her close relatives. The forum of nationalist citizens also opines that the commonly displayed portrait of martyr Kanaklata should be scrutinised and corrected with the actual age.
“We have found that in some digital media inputs the photograph of another martyr Preetilata Waddedar is being used as that of Kanaklata Barua (may be mistaken because of similar names). Agnikanya Preetilata died while fighting with British forces inside Chittagong European Club in 1932. Preetilata sacrificed her life in gunfighting against the club authority in the night hours at the age of 21. The error should not be repeated,” said a PPFA statement.
