Overview

• On July 23, Modi took to X to commemorate the birth anniversaries of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Chandra Shekhar Azad, praising their contributions to India’s freedom struggle.
• He highlighted Tilak’s pioneering use of journalism as resistance through his Marathi weekly Kesari and its English counterpart Mahratta.
• Modi recalled Tilak’s 1916 Lucknow Pact with Mohammed Ali Jinnah as a landmark effort to promote Hindu-Muslim unity in the nationalist movement.
• He saluted Azad’s revolutionary fervour and his unwavering vow never to be captured, framing Azad’s 1931 police encounter as a symbol of ultimate sacrifice.
• The prime minister positioned both leaders’ legacies as ongoing sources of inspiration for civic engagement and youth activism in contemporary India.