Bhagwan Birsa Munda Jayanti

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Bhagwan Birsa Munda on his Jayanti.

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Key-Points

 Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe.

He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) in the late 19th century, during the British Raj, thereby making him an important figure in the history of the Indian independence movement.

The revolt mainly concentrated in the Munda belt of Khunti, Tamar, Sarwada and Bandgaon.

His portrait hangs in the Indian Parliament Museum; he is the only tribal leader to have been so honored.

Birsa Munda’s slogan threatening the British Raj—Abua raj seter jana, maharani raj tundu jana (“Let the kingdom of the queen be ended and our kingdom be established”)—is remembered today in areas of Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh.