Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Governor Phagu Singh Chauhan paid rich tribute to tribal freedom fighter Birsa Munda on the 144th birth anniversary of noted freedom fighter Birsa Munda. Kumar and Chauhan paid floral tributes to the freedom fighter at an official event organised in Patna on Friday. Birsa, who belonged to the Munda tribe, was born on 15 November in 1875. During the British rule in the late 19th century, he spearheaded an Indian tribal religious Millenarian movement across the tribal belt of modern-day Bihar and Jharkhand. Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar in 2000 by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee – led government at the Centre.
