Muzaffarnagar, Oct 2 (IANS) Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday paid tribute to the martyrs of the statehood movement at a ceremony organised at Shaheed Sthal, Rampur Tiraha in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar.

The tribute marked the memory of those who lost their lives in the tragic police firing incident of October 2, 1994, during the agitation for a separate state.

The Rampur Tiraha firing refers to the unprovoked police firing on unarmed statehood activists at Rampur Tiraha crossing in Muzaffarnagar, when activists were on their way to Delhi to stage a dharna at Raj Ghat on Gandhi Jayanti.

The incident led to the deaths of six activists, while several women were raped and molested in the chaos. At the time, Mulayam Singh Yadav was the Chief Minister of Uttar Prad

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