BHOPAL, July 28: With a view to acquainting the younger generation with the sacrifices made by freedom fighters, the All India Freedom Fighters' Organisation will take out two yatras from Madhya Pradesh.

One of these yatras will start from Bhavra in Jhabua district where Chandra Shekhar Azad was born and the other from Barbai in Morena district, the ancestral place of Ram Prasad Bismil, hero of the Kakori case. Azad was shot in Allahabad while Bismil achieved martyrdom in Gorakhpur.

All India Freedom Fighter's Organisation general secretary Shashi Bhushan Vajpeyi, former MP, said yesterday the itineraries of the two yatras had been chalked out in a way as to touch several important places connected with freedom fighters. The month-long yatras, starting on October 2, will culminate in Bhopal.

It will be a bus, and possibly a jeep also, with a dozen or so volunteers in each yatra. No speeches will be made. Only the slogans and quotations from the speeches of the martyrs will be recited, according to Vajpeyi. The people will be free to join the yatra and leave it anywhere as they liked.

The yatra, starting from Bhavra, will traverse through Jhabua, Amjhera (birthplace of Rana Bkhtawar Singh), Dhar, Betma, Deplapur (where Bhagirath Silavat was hanged), Indore (where Sh'adat Khan, Rana Bakhtawar Singh and others achieved martyrdom), Ujjain, Dewas, Sehore, Bhopal, Hoshangabad, Ghoda Dongri, Chichali, Boras, Jabalpur, Mandla, Gadhakota, Sagar, Chhatarpur, Panna, Satna, Pindra, Rewa and Allahabad.

The other yatra will start from Barvai and move on to Morena, Gwalior (where the Rani of Jhansi was martyred), Shivpuri, Jhansi, Kanpur, Bithur, Lucknow, Shahjehanpur (where Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla were born), Faizabad (the place of martyrdom of Ashfaqulla), Gonda (the place of martyrdom of Rajendranath Lahiri) and Gorakhpur.

Vajpeyi said there was a demand to start a similar yatra from Banga, the birthplace of Bhagat Singh. For this, he said, he planned to go to Pakistan on August 9 to talk with the Pakistan Government.

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