Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan greets freedom fighter Gundu Rao Desai on I-Day

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Karnataka Housing and Minorities Welfare Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan greeted veteran freedom fighter Gundu Rao Desai in Kamalapura on Independence Day and felicitated him.

The meeting with the freedom fighter took place at his residence, where the Minister honoured him with a gold chain and sought his blessings.

“It is because of the sacrifice and struggles of people like him that the country got freedom and we got power. This is the result of his struggle,” the minister noted.

The veteran freedom fighter expressed his happiness over the minister personally visiting him to felicitate him. He said, “It was worth it for me to fight for the country’s freedom struggle”.