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Punjab organizes state level function on Shaheed ML Dhingra’s martyrdom day

In Punjab, a state level function was organized at Amritsar, Wednesday morning to commemorate the 102nd martyrdom day of Shaheed Madan Lal Dhingra. The function was presided over by the State Social Security Minister, Prof. Laxmi Kanta Chawla. While paying rich tributes to the martyr, she said that Madan Lal Dhingra was the first Indian revolutionary to fire gun shots in London to kill Sir Curzon Wyllie, political ADC to the Secretary of State to India on July 1, 1909 in the struggle for independence against British rule. He was hanged to death on August 17, 1909.

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