Sights on Morning Walks - Adivasi Gowari Memorial, Freedom Park

 Right across the road to the Zero Mile is another memorial - the Gowari stampede in 1994 which occurred when 50000 tribals of the Gowari community came to Nagpur to protest for their rights. In the ensuing police lathicharge a stampede happened and 114 people, mostly women and children, died and 500 were injured. The commission found no one guilty and the one who resigned was the tribal welfare minister who took moral responsibility for the incident. Clean chits for the police, the CM Sharad Pawar and all concerned. The memorial has a plaque which explains why it is there and the names of all those who died are chiselled into the plaques around the memorial.

Good that it is right next to the Zero Milestone. Further down the road, a stone's throw away is the Vidhan Sabha.

I walked a little down the road and found the Freedom Park which has a huge Metro station attached to it.

I took a cab and headed back to the hotel. Nice walk.