Archive · 14 Aug 2026
J&K L-G: Partition Wounds Unhealed, Youth Must Build Trust
On Friday, a very important leader named Manoj Sinha gave a speech.
He is the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, a region in India.
He spoke at a special event called Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.
The Partition happened in 1947, when a huge country was split into new countries.
Many families were torn apart, people lost their homes, and some trains arrived carrying people who had died.
Mr. Sinha said the sadness from that time can still be felt almost eighty years later.
He said people who moved to Jammu and Kashmir worked hard and helped build their communities.
He explained that some of those people, like those displaced from Pakistan-occupied areas, were treated unfairly for many years.
He believes new rules made after August 2019 helped give them equal rights.
He asked everyone, especially young people, to remember the past and work for peace and unity.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha addressed the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day function at Tagore Hall in Srinagar on Friday.
Sinha said the wound of Partition remains an unhealed, generational pain in India's collective consciousness nearly eight decades later.
He described Partition as a human catastrophe, recalling trains that arrived 'filled with human corpses' and families shattered by displacement.
Sinha said communities displaced from Pakistan-occupied Jammu Kashmir and Chhamb faced decades of 'discrimination,' with constitutional changes after August 5, 2019 restoring equal rights and dignity.
He urged the youth to reject enmity and communal bitterness, build bridges of trust and work toward a self-reliant J&K, while the event featured a photo exhibition, a theatrical performance and a two-minute silence.
- Who
- Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
- What
- Paid tribute to victims of the 1947 Partition and urged the youth to build bridges of trust, rejecting enmity and communal bitterness
- When
- Friday, on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (dated August 14 in the article; year not specified)
- Where
- Tagore Hall, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
- Why
- To honour those who endured the 1947 Partition, preserve their memory with truthfulness and compassion, and ensure such a tragedy is never repeated
- Speaker
- Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
- Event
- Partition Horrors Remembrance Day function
- Venue
- Tagore Hall, Srinagar
- Date
- Friday, August 14 (year not specified in articles)
- Commemoration
- Partition of 1947; nearly eight decades ago
- Communities mentioned
- Those displaced from Pakistan-occupied Jammu Kashmir and Chhamb
- Constitutional reference
- Changes after August 5, 2019
- Event features
- Photo exhibition, theatrical performance, two-minute silence; Department of Culture programmes across the Union Territory
