Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: PM Modi pays tribute to the victims, says: 'Will always remember their unimportant spirit' | Today news

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the people killed in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 on Sunday, saying that the “coming generations will always remember their unimportant spirit”. Hundreds of people who protestly protest against the Rowlatt acts, which granted the oppressive powers of the colonial administration, were shot dead by the British forces without any provocation on this day in 1919 in the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. “We pay tribute to the martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh. The coming generations will always remember their incompetent spirit,” Modi said in a post about X. We pay tribute to the Martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh. The coming generations will always remember their impassable spirit. “It was indeed a dark chapter in the history of our country. Their sacrifice has become an important turning point in India’s freedom struggle,” he said. Earlier in March, a conservative member of parliament urged the British government to recognize what went wrong and formally apologizing to the people of India. Bob Blackman, the Harrow East MP, spoke in the House of Commons on Thursday when he recalled the deadly massacre in Amritsar on April 13, 1919, when people gathered to celebrate the Baisakhi festival and apologized, Pti reports. “On April 13, 1919, families gathered very peacefully in the Jallianwala Bagh to enjoy the sun, to enjoy a day with their families. General Dyer, on behalf of the British army, marched his troops and ordered his troops to fire on those innocent people until they did not have ammunition,” Blackman said. “At the end of the massacre, 1,500 people were killed and 1 200 injured. In the end, General Dyer was shamed for the stain on the British Empire. In 2019, the then Prime Minister Theresa May admitted that it was a stain on British colonial rule in India.