Workers, peasants and common people assembled in large numbers at Jamua in Giridih on 29th September on the occasion of the first Memorial Day of Comrade Ibnul Hasan Basru and pledged to intensify the struggles which Com. Basru had been spearheading for democracy and peoples progress in Jharkhand. Com. Dipankar Bhattacharya addressed the gathering and called upon people to intensify the struggle to end the reign of loot of Jharkhands ruling class parties.

Prior to this, a memorial meeting was held in Mirzaganj (Com. Basrus village) and from there people marched in rally to Jamua CPI(ML) office to pay tribute to their beloved leader. Also present were CPI(ML) PB member Comrade DP Bakshi, State Secretary Com. Janardan Prasad, SCMs Com. AP Gupta, Rajkumar Yadav, Parmeshwar Mehta and Rajesh Kr. Yadav and CPI(ML) Dist. Secretary Manoj Bhakt among others. Comrade Usman Ansari conducted the proceedings of the programme.