President of India Hosts ‘At Home’ for Freedom Fighters on the 73rd Anniversary of the Quit India Movement

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee hosted an ‘At Home’ reception for freedom fighters on the occasion of the 73^rd anniversary of the Quit India Movement today (August 9, 2015) at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

On the occasion, the President honoured and felicitated freedom fighters from across the country in the presence of the Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari; Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi; Speaker of Lok Sabha Smt. Sumitra Mahajan; former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh; Union Minister for Home Affairs Shri Rajnath Singh and other dignitaries.

Shri Vasantha Vasudeva Gurjara Bondre from Karnataka who celebrated his 100^th birthday today was specially greeted by the President and other dignitaries. A special gift was also presented to him by the President.

Sr. No. Name of Freedom Fighters attended

the ‘At Home’ Reception 2015

ASSAM

1. Shri Umakanta Barphukan

2. Shri Prafulla Bhuyan

3. Shri Bipin Chandra Goswami

4. Shri Kailash Chandra Das

5. Shri Ratna Kanta Bora

Bihar

6. Shri Sadhusharan Singh

7. Shri Radhakant Jha

8. Shri Shakthinath Pathak

9. Shri Shaligram Singh

10. Shri Gaya Prasad Singh

GOA

11. Shri Tulsidas Ankush Bhonsle

12. Shri Vassant Rama Budholkar

13. Shri Narayan Alias Prabhakar Dattaram

Naik

14. Shri Vassudev Vinayak (Bhobe)

15. Shri Sanjay K Prabhu Dessai

GUJARAT

16. Shri Maganbhai Fulabhai Padhiyar

17. Shri Mahijibhai Marghabhai Patel

HARYANA

18. Shri Nand Lal

19. Shri Chander Bhan

20. Shri Des Raj Pradesi

21. Shri Chuhar Singh

22. Shri Dina Nath

HIMACHAL PRADESH

23. Shri Chandu Ram

JHARKHAND

24. Shri Gajadhar Yadav

25. Shri Ram Prasad Mandal

KARNATAKA

26. Shri Krishnaji

27. Shri Sangappa

28. Shri B Srikantaiah

29. Shri Vasantha Vasudeva Gurjara Bondre

30. Shri SR Ramaiah

MADHYA PRADESH

31. Shri Halku Prasad Verma

32. Shri Ramchandra Saini

33. Shri Ramprasad Pathak

34. Shri Bhagwan Das Dubey

MAHARASHTRA

35. Shri Satyanarayan Kalyan Prasad

Sharma

36. Shri Manikrao Takalgavhankar

37. Shri Pandurang Narayan Borse

38. Smt. Mangaladevi Balasaheb Patankar

39. Shri Raosaheb Anantrao Gharge

ORISSA

40. Shri Ishwar Bishoi

41. Shri Purnna Chandra Mallick

42. Shri Akrura Charan Ojha

43. Shri Baidhar Mohanty

44. Shri Bhagabata Ch Pradhan

PUNJAB

45. Shri Gurcharan Singh

46. Shri Bihara Singh

RAJASTHAN

47. Shri Ganapat Rai

48. Shri Gopalram Bhavra

49. Shri Liladhar Gujjar

50. Shri Kaluram Parikh

51. Shri Rameshwar Chaudhary

TAMIL NADU

52. Shri S Iruthayamani

53. Shri C Natarajan

TELANGANA

54. Shri Guntakandla Ramachandra Reddy

55. Shri P Sudarshan Rao

56. Shri A Shyamsundar Reddy

57. Shri Unnam Venkaiah

58. Shri Bojjapuri Venkataiah

UTTAR PRADESH

59. Shri Kalicharan Gupta

60. Shri Lal Chandra Tiwari

61. Shri Sudhama Singh

UTTARAKHAND

62. Shri Omkar Nath Shastri

63. Shri Swami Kailashanand

64. Shri Sukhvir Singh Chauhan

65. Shri Sodeshwar Singh

66. Shri Bhimsen Bhatia

WEST BENGAL

67. Shri Ram Krishna Som

68. Shri Chittaranjan Samanta

69. Shri Manindra Kumar Roy

70. Shri Priya Ranjan Pal

71. Shri Sambhu Nath Dutta

DAMAN & DIU

72. Shri Khandubhai Patel

73. Shri Mohanbhai R Patel

74. Shri Bhagubhai G Kamli

75. Shri Kishore C Joshi

NCT OF DELHI

76. Shri Bel Bahadur

77. Shri Govind Bashist Narayan Pandey

78. Smt. Gurupdesh Kaur

79. Shri Inder Raj Anand

80. Shri Lajpat Rai Yadav

81. Shri Mahender Kumar Sood

82. Smt. Mahender Sharma

83. Smt. Momota B Mehta

84. Shri Nand Lal Gupta

85. Shri Om Prakash

86. Shri Ram Lal Yadav

87. Smt. Reba Mukharjee

88. Shri R Madhavan

89. Shri Rameshwar Dayal

90. Shri Sat Pal Saini

91. Shri Shaukat Ali Hashmi

92. Shri Uday Veer

93. Shri Pratap Singh

94. Shri Someshwar Nathkaul

95. Smt. Subhadra

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President of India to Address Students and Faculty of Institutes of Higher Learning Through Video Conferencing Tomorrow

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will address the students and faculty of Institutes of Higher Learning using the National Knowledge Network from Rashtrapati Bhavan today (August 10, 2015). The topic of the address is ‘Energizing the Higher Educational Institutes in India’.

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President of India’s Message on the eve of National Day of Ecuador

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has extended his greetings and felicitations to the Government and people of the Republic of Ecuador on the eve of their National Day (August 10, 2015).

In his message to His Excellency Mr. Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado, the President of the Republic of Ecuador, the President has said, “On behalf of the Government, the people of India and on my own behalf, it gives me great pleasure to extend warm greetings and felicitations to you and to the people of Ecuador on the occasion of your National Day.

India and Ecuador have traditionally enjoyed warm and friendly relations. I am confident that your visit to India later this year will contribute to the further strengthening of our bilateral ties and the realisation of the full potential of our cooperation – for the mutual benefit of our two peoples. I look forward to working with you towards this shared objective.

I avail this opportunity to convey my best wishes for your personal well being as well as for progress and prosperity of the friendly people of Ecuador.”