Chauri Chaura Episode: Centenary Year
On 4th February 2021, Prime Minister inaugurated the Chauri Chaura Centenary Celebrations and released a postage stamp to mark the centenary of the event. The UP government has planned a year of celebrations through 4th February 2022, in all 75 districts of the state.
- Chauri Chaura — whose name derives from that of two villages — is a town in Gorakhpur district, about halfway between Gorakhpur and Deoria. The place was the scene of a violent incident where an agitated protesting mob torched the police station killing 22 policemen in 1923 during Gandhi’s Non-cooperation movement in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.
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