Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday stated Bal Gangadhar Tilak understood the significance of journalism and newspapers for amplifying the demand for freedom.

He was talking after receiving the Lokmanya Tilak National Award right here. ”Tilak understood the significance of journalism and newspapers for making the demand for freedom louder. He began the weekly `Mahratta’ in English, and with the assistance of one other freedom fighter, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, and Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar he began the Marathi each day ‘Kesari’,” Modi stated.

The Kesari is in circulation for 140 years which exhibits that Tilak laid a robust basis for the establishment, he stated. NCP chief Sharad Pawar additionally spoke concerning the significance of the press on this event and stated that Tilak used journalism as a weapon to encourage the widespread man in order to free him from British slavery. ”At the age of 25, he began the each day Kesari and weekly Mahratta. With the assistance of those newspapers, he attacked the British….He used to say that journalism must be freed from strain. This was his stand, and he put it into observe,” stated Pawar.

(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse employees and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)