AGARTALA, June 14 (TIWN): DYFI state committee along with SFI jointly observed the 88th birth anniversary of late Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara on Sunday at Battala.

DYFI state committee secretary Amal Chakraborty, DYFI central committee member Mitali Bhattacharjee, SFI state  secretary  Nabarun Deb, DYFI Sadar committee secretary  Sanjib Saha along with other dignitaries remain present in the program.

As part of the program, the dignitaries paid floral tribute to the statue of Che Guevara at Battala on Sunday morning.

However, DYFI state committee secretary Amal Chakraborty stated that this program is organized on the remembrance of 88th birth anniversary Che Guevara. He further said that, Revolutionary leader Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, better known as Che Guevara, was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina. After completing his medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires, Guevara first became politically active in his native Argentina and then in neighboring Bolivia and Guatemala. In 1954, he met Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and his brother Raul while in Mexico.

Che Guevara was a theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America. After his execution by the Bolivian army, he was regarded as a martyred hero by generations of leftists worldwide, and his image became an icon of leftist radicalism and anti-imperialism, added Amal Chakraborty.

Talking to TIWN, DYFI central committee member Mitali Bhattacharjee said that a program is also scheduled to be held at Mukhtodhara on the occasion of 88th birth anniversary of Che Guevara, where famous writer Samudra Guha will talk on the life history of Che Guevara.

Along with Agartala city, the birth anniversary of Che Guevara was also observed at Belonai with pomp and gaiety.