“It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr.”
30 January marks the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1948, by Nathuram Godse and is observed as Martyr’s Day On Martyr’s Day the President, the Vice President, the Prime Minister, the Defence Minister, the Chief of Defence Staff and the three Service Chiefs gather at the samadhi at Raj Ghat memorial and lay wreaths decorated with multi-colour flowers and the armed forces personnel blow bugles sounding the Last Post. A two-minute silence in memory of Indian martyrs is observed throughout the country at 11 am. Participants hold all-religion prayers and sing tributes. The day is to remember freedom fighters who laid down their lives for India to become independent from British colonisation. GD Goenka Public School, Rohini, Sector 9 pays tribute to all the martyrs on this day.