Nabarangpur:
Freedom Fighter & Social worker #MohammedBazi Saheb of Nabarangpur who will turns into 100 on #28th January.
💐Salute to the legendary
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💐Salute to the legendary🌹
Sri Mohammed Bazi is a social worker of repute, a Bhoodan worker and a
freedom fighter. He was born at Nabarangpur on January 28th, 1917. He
was influenced by the freedom fighters and left his school while he was a
student of Class X at Jeypore. He is a bachelor and a vegetarian.
On the occasion of the visit of Pandit Neelakantha Das and Dibakar Patnaik to Nabarangpur in 1936, a large meeting was organized on behalf of congress. Md. Baji and Laxmi Chandra Dash together had organized the meeting. In this meeting Md. Baji also addressed the large gathering and impressed up on the audience not to allow the Britishers to do injustice. He exhorted the audience to fight against Bethi‘ and Gadam‘ and not to offer goat and chicken to the Police for their Lunch and Dinner.
After receiving training at Nuaput training centre on the principles and Philosophy of congress, be propagated these in the remote villages of Nabarangpur district. He along with his associate Raidhar Jani of Goudaguda were arrested by the Police and were taken to Dabugam Police Station. Md. Baji was kept in Nabarangpur Jail for Six months and after wards he was imprisoned for two and half years in Koraput Jail. He was again imprisoned along with Sadasiba Tripathy and Jagannath Tripathy in 1940 while they were observing individual Satyagraha.
After returning from Jail he established a Gandhi Ashram at Bijapur village in Jhorigam block. In 1953 he joined the Sarvodaya movement and concentrated in Bhodan movement. He will attained the age of 100 years in 28th January 2017
