RAM NATH GOENKA’S CENTENARY TRIBUTE

‘A Child’s Courage, An Adult’s Fortitude’

Posted: Sunday, Aug 29, 2004 at 0043 hrs IST
Updated: Sunday, Aug 29, 2004 at 0043 hrs IST

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New Delhi, Aug 28: no clothes and an adult’s fortitude for the consequences, that both emperor and empire always strike back”.

Among the speakers was Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat who recalled that like himself, Mr Ram Nath Goenka was a native of Shekhawat in Rajasthan, and “No battle was ever fought without a Shekhawati lad winning glory.” Other speakers included former prime ministers VP Singh and IK Gujral, former deputy prime minister LK Advani and Speaker of the 13th Lok Sabha Somnath Chatterjee.

Express editor Shekhar Gupta with Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, I.K. Gujral, Somnath Chatterjee, Arjun Singh, LK Advani, VP Singh and Jaswant Singh.

Union minister for human resource development Arjun Singh, read verbatim from the speech that Dr Manmohan Singh had prepared for the occasion and intended to deliver himself, when prevented by sudden illness.

Among the many tributes in the Prime Minister’s speech, was his acknowledgement that Mr Ram Nath Goenka “was among the first to close down his papers in 1942 at Gandhiji’s call and throw himself into the Quit India movement in support of underground leaders.

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