NEFIS recalls Irawat in DU campus function

IMPHAL | Sept 30

Students and working people from North East people residing in Delhi today celebrated the 121st birth anniversary of great revolutionary leader Hijam Irawat at North Campus, Delhi University today.

A release said that the programme organised by North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) saw huge participation of students from various colleges of Delhi University and added that the programme saw rendition of revolutionary songs remembering Hijam Irawat, discussion on his revolutionary ideas and other cultural activities.

It said that discussion was organised on the topic ‘Revolutionary legacy of Hijam Irawat and its relevance in our time’ which saw active participation of students, activists and independent researchers.

During the discussion Irawat’s intensive work towards building a truly democratic, progressive people’s movement in the region, and his revolutionary views on the question of creating a just society where different communities coexist with mutual respect for each other were emphasized, it added.

Further it said that the programme highlighted the necessity of Irawat’s ideas amid the present state of discord between different communities and added that Irawat stood for unity among different oppressed communities as a necessary step for people to liberate themselves.

At this crucial juncture, NEFIS took it as a duty to highlight Irawat’s vision to build democratic people’s movements that goes beyond the façade of representative democracy apparatus by exposing all forms of exploitation, oppression and subjugation faced by the toiling masses of the Northeast, it added.