PM to chair panels formed to celebrate Patel, Munda, Vajpayee’s special birth anniversaries
Officials said the Centre plans to honour all three national icons in a big manner — through events, seminars, speeches and dialogue across the country, and not just in Delhi or their respective home states.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to chair three high-level committees with over 100 members each to commemorate special anniversaries of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and tribal leader Birsa Munda. (Source: PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair three high-level committees constituted by the government to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Birsa Munda and centennial birth anniversary of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Notified by the Ministry of Culture on August 23, each of the three committees will have more than 100 members each, including Union ministers, state governors and chief ministers as members.
Besides PM Modi as its chairperson, the committees will include former Presidents Pratibha Patil and Ramnath Kovind, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and former PM HD Deve Gowda as key members.
The 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Patel, freedom fighter and country’s first Deputy PM, falls on October 31 this year. Tribal icon Birsa Munda, who led one of the earliest tribal rebellions against British rule in 1899, was born on November 15, 1875, and this year marks his 150th birth anniversary. The birth centenary celebrations of Vajpayee, born on December 25, 1924, started December 24 last year.
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