Patna: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will be in Patna on Sunday as chief guest and key speaker at a function organised by the Congress to celebrate the birth anniversary of the state’s first CM Shri Krishna Sinha, whose career spanned the freedom struggle and the laying of the foundation of modern Bihar. Sinha’s birth anniversary falls on Oct 21, but the celebrations were postponed to Oct 25 due to festivals.The party’s state chief Rajesh Ram and Rajya Sabha member Akhilesh Prasad Singh, a former state president, informed reporters about Kharge’s participation in the function.Ram said Bihar’s first CM abolished the zamindari system, initiated measures to promote social justice and opened industries to lay the foundation of modern Bihar.Akhilesh said Sinha had enabled people from dalit sections to enter the Deoghar temple, marking a concrete step towards deepening and spreading social justice in the state.Akhilesh said he had visited more than 20 districts to invite people to the function. Later, party state media head Ajay Kumar Paswan said the event would be held at Bapu Sabhagar.
