Freedom Fighter & Former CM Sadasiba Tripathy remembered.

Nabarangpur: Basant Rath, Journalist

Rich Tributes were paid to freedom fighter and former chief minister Dr. Sadasiba Tripathy, in Nabarangpur  on the occasion of his death anniversary.

The Guests garlanded the late leader’s statue at the Sadasiba Park near the Municipal Office here to mark the occasion later a meeting was organised at the park in which Commerce and Transport Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi was the chief guest, Collector Md. Sadique Alam, ADM Bhimman Seth, Former MP Pradeep Majhi, Former MLA Sadan Nayak,   Senior advocate and public prosecutor  Prakesh Mishra,  DCC President Narayan Patra, Municipal Chairperson Basanti Soura, Vice-Chairman Prahalad Tripathy, DIPRO Bhujang Bhusan Rao were the other guests at the meeting.  Minister Majhi said that his Government has taken several steps during the celebration of the 100th birth anniversary of Dr. Sadasiv Tripathy. He thanked Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for the installation of statue at Kalinga Hospital junction.

The illustrious son of this soil, Sadashiba Tripathy, who was born on April 21, 1910, served as a teacher and was associated with the National Congress. After the formation of Odisha as a separate State in 1936, the freedom struggle gained momentum in the undivided Koraput district. Tripathy played a pioneering role in leading the people of Koraput in the freedom movement and was responsible for the political awakening of the people of this tribals-dominated region. He was imprisoned for a year during the individual Satyagraha movement and was also under detention during Quit India movement. Tripathy was a Minister in the State for a period of 12 years, and throughout his Ministerial tenure his main portfolio was Revenue. He was also the Chief Minister for a short period in the late 1970s. As an expert in revenue administration, he piloted the Odisha Zamindary Abolition and Land Reforms Bill in the legislature. He was also the secretary of the Odisha Bhoodan Yajna Samiti.