Bihar Shahid Diwas

• Bihar Chief Minister  Nitish Kumar announced that, February 15 would now be commemorated as “Shahid Diwas”.

• February 15 would be commemorated as Shahid Diwas, in the honour of 34 freedom fighters who were killed by police 90 years ago, in Tarapur town in Munger district of Bihar.

• These freedom fighters had never got their due, even though this was the biggest massacre carried out by the British police after Jallianwala Bagh in 1919 in Amritsar.