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Bhagat Singh's statue to be placed in Lahore
Monday October 01, 2012 03:29:34 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: A Pakistani
institute that works for promotion of peace with India has
welcomed the decision to rename a city centre in Lahore after Bhagat Singh, and said it plans to install a statue of the martyr
there.
"This is a victory for people of all religions, and activists who
had been rallying for this cause since long," the Institute for
Peace and Secular Studies (IPSS) was quoted as saying by the Daily
Times.
The IPSS plans to place a statue of Bhagat Singh with a plaque
displaying his poetry and biography at the newly named Bhagat
Singh Chowk, it said.
Noorul Amin Mengal, district coordination officer of Lahore,
recently took a decision to rename the Shadman Chowk as Bhagat
Singh Chowk.
The IPSS said it wrote a letter to the Punjab government in 2001,
suggesting that Bhagat Singh should be honoured and the place
where he was hanged - Shadman Chowk - should be named after him.
"Subsequently, this request was taken up with Punjab legislators
who tabled it in the Punjab assembly once and then again on April
13, 2012," the IPSS said.
"We congratulate all those whose tireless efforts made this
victory possible. This decision will help establish that Pakistan
belongs not only to Muslims but equally to its Sikh, Hindu,
Christian and other citizens."
"Our heroes crossed religious and sectarian boundaries to fight
the forces of oppression and to gain independence from
colonialism," the institute said.
The IPSS, however, lamented that on the occasion of Bhagat Singh's
105th birth anniversary last week, his family members and scholars
from India were invited but were unfortunately denied visas.
The institute requested the authorities that the Bradley Hall
School that Bhagat Singh attended as a student should be converted
into a museum, and also named after him.
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