Chacha Nehru Had Come To Hathras With Kamla Nehru – Hathras News

Kamla Nehru’s name stone installed in Kamla Bazaar
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Children’s Day will be celebrated today. Programs will be organized on this day, which is celebrated on the birthday of the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He will be remembered across the country. Hathras is also buzzing with the memories of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru had come to Hathras city with his wife Kamla Nehru. Then a market in the city was named Kamla Nehru Market. It is now known as Kamla Bazaar.

Even today, an inscription in the name of Kamla Nehru Bazaar is present on the main gate of the Kameshwar Temple located in the main market. It is said that there was a movement going on for independence across the country. The revolutionaries were engaged in uniting the people to take on the British. The trumpet of freedom struggle was being sounded in Hathras also. During this time, in 1932, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and his wife Kamala Nehru had come to Hathras.

The market leading from Sasni Gate to Gudhai Bazaar was named Kamala Bazaar after Kamla Nehru. The inscription Kamla Nehru Bazar was also placed on the gate of Kameshwar Mahadev Temple located in Kamla Bazar, which is still there. Presently this market is known as Kamla Bazaar.

We were not there at that time, but it is often discussed in the family. It is said that the speeches of Chacha Nehru and Kamla Nehru had breathed life into the agitators. The local people were greatly impressed by Chacha Nehru’s speeches.-Jay Singh, resident Top Road, Hathras.

It is said that when Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru came to Hathras, gradually an army of freedom fighters was prepared in Hathras. The memory of that meeting is linked to Kamla Nehru Bazaar, which is from Sasni Gate to the turn of Bakhtawar Gali.-Bhim Singh, resident of Gijrauli, Hathras.