BHUBANESWAR: The Madhya Pradesh government will take steps for raising a memorial and installation of a statue of freedom fighter Veer Surendra Sai (VSS) who along with his fellow rebels wA jailed by Britishers at Asirgarh fort in Madhya Pradesh in the nineteenth century.
MP chief minister Mohan Yadav said this on Saturday in his reply letter to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. On January 18, Pradhan had urged Yadav to consider the request of Western Odisha people to raise a memorial of VSS, a noted freedom fighter and leader of resistance against British rule, at Asirgarh fort.
Yadav in the letter stated that his government will make a well-coordinated plan to raise a memorial and statue of VSS in the premises of Asirgarh fort after taking suggestions from experts. “It will be a real tribute of MP people to a great freedom fighter like VSS who have sacrificed his life for the country’s cause,” he said in the letter.
VSS was lodged at Asirgarh jail for his rebellion against British rule. He remained in jail for 37 years and died there on February 28, 1884. Revolt of VSS against British imperialism in Sambalpur region spanned two phases-one from 1827 to 1840 and another from 1857 to 1862. He revolted against the British government when Sambalpur was annexed by the British in 1849 under the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’.
The rebellion of Sambalpur in 1857 was mostly a tribal rebellion with zamindars of Ghens, Kolabira, Paharsirgira, Machida, Kodabaga, Laida, Loisinga, Lakhanpur, Bheden, Patkulanda, espousing the cause of VSS. They mobilised the tribals and zamindars of the region and fought against the British forces using guerrilla warfare tactics.
Pradhan in his letter to Yadav had stated that VSS and his son Mitrabhanu Sai and three of his brothers Udanta, Dhrub and Medini were initially jailed at Asirgarh. Additionally, Khageswar Singh Dau of Lakhanpur zamindar family and Loknath Panda of Rampella were shifted to Asirgarh and were kept there since June 8, 1865. Later Kamal Singh Dau of Lakhanpur was also sent to Asirgarh in 1866 as the eighth prisoner from Sambalpur, he added.
Pradhan’s letter stated that VSS’s brother Udanta had stayed in jail for 47 years and died in January 1894. He was the man who suffered the maximum jail term among the prisoners. VSS had spent 37 years in jail and died there in 1884, it added.
MP chief minister Mohan Yadav said this on Saturday in his reply letter to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. On January 18, Pradhan had urged Yadav to consider the request of Western Odisha people to raise a memorial of VSS, a noted freedom fighter and leader of resistance against British rule, at Asirgarh fort.
Yadav in the letter stated that his government will make a well-coordinated plan to raise a memorial and statue of VSS in the premises of Asirgarh fort after taking suggestions from experts. “It will be a real tribute of MP people to a great freedom fighter like VSS who have sacrificed his life for the country’s cause,” he said in the letter.
VSS was lodged at Asirgarh jail for his rebellion against British rule. He remained in jail for 37 years and died there on February 28, 1884. Revolt of VSS against British imperialism in Sambalpur region spanned two phases-one from 1827 to 1840 and another from 1857 to 1862. He revolted against the British government when Sambalpur was annexed by the British in 1849 under the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’.
The rebellion of Sambalpur in 1857 was mostly a tribal rebellion with zamindars of Ghens, Kolabira, Paharsirgira, Machida, Kodabaga, Laida, Loisinga, Lakhanpur, Bheden, Patkulanda, espousing the cause of VSS. They mobilised the tribals and zamindars of the region and fought against the British forces using guerrilla warfare tactics.
Pradhan in his letter to Yadav had stated that VSS and his son Mitrabhanu Sai and three of his brothers Udanta, Dhrub and Medini were initially jailed at Asirgarh. Additionally, Khageswar Singh Dau of Lakhanpur zamindar family and Loknath Panda of Rampella were shifted to Asirgarh and were kept there since June 8, 1865. Later Kamal Singh Dau of Lakhanpur was also sent to Asirgarh in 1866 as the eighth prisoner from Sambalpur, he added.
Pradhan’s letter stated that VSS’s brother Udanta had stayed in jail for 47 years and died in January 1894. He was the man who suffered the maximum jail term among the prisoners. VSS had spent 37 years in jail and died there in 1884, it added.
