Bhubaneswar: October 5 is the birth anniversary of Baji Rout, youngest martyr of India\u2019s freedom movement who was born at Nilakanthapur village in Odisha\u2019s Dhenkanal district in 1926.<\/p>\n
Baji Rout,\u00a0courageous enough at the tender age of 12 to fearlessly face the bullets of British force, continues to be an inspiration of patriotism for generations to come.<\/p>\n
The fateful night: <\/strong>British police in the midnight of October 10, 1938 attacked\u00a0Bhuban village in the district, arrested some persons and leaders without any reason and took them to Bhuban police station. Several villagers gheraoed the police station and demanded release of the arrested persons.<\/p>\n The cops did not listen to the demand of the agitators and fired at them, during which Raghu Naik and Quri Naik were shot dead, and many others were injured.<\/p>\n Apprehending their lives at risk, the policemen wanted to go to Dhenkanal through Nilakanthapur Ghat as it was the shortest way to Dhenkanal.<\/p>\n On October 11 night, the cops reached Nilakanthapur Ghat of Brahmani river while it was raining. Baji Rout, a member of the children\u2019s wing of the\u00a0Prajamandal Andolan,\u00a0<\/em>was in charge of a country boat at the ghat. He was asked by senior activists to keep a vigil on the ghat to ensure that\u00a0policemen won\u2019t be able to ferry through the river.<\/p>\n The Britishers ordered him to carry them across the river on his boat, to which he denied fearlessly. The police force fired at Baji Rout along with two other boatmen Laxman Mallik and Fagu Sahoo, killing them on the spot.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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