Purkazi or Purquazi is a town and a
nagar panchayat
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in
Muzaffarnagar district
Muzaffarnagar district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. It is part of Saharanpur division. The city of Muzaffarnagar is the district headquarters. This district is the part of National Capital Region.
History Medieval ...
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India
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of
Uttar Pradesh
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. It is adjacent to the Uttarakhand state, connecting border of Haridwar district and Muzaffarnagar district.
Zaheer Farooqui (Adv.) is the Nagar Panchayat Chairman of Purkazi.
Demographics
India
census
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, Purkazi has a population of 27,516 which includes 14,332 males and 13,184 females. Children comprise 4,575 of the total population of Purkazi. The nagar panchayat has 13,244 illiterate people out of which 7,736 are males and 5,508 are females.
Location
Purkazi is located on
NH 58
This article is about the old number of Delhi-Meerut-Roorkee-Haridwar-Badrinath National Highway.
National Highway 58 (NH 58) was a national highway in India before it was renumbered. It linked Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh near New Delhi with B ...
, Delhi-Dehradun highway, 56 km from temple city of Haridwar.
Historical significance (Suli Wala Bagh)
The Suli Wala Bagh located in Purkazi is the witness to the mass murder of 500 freedom fighters after the
first war of independence in 1857, when the English collector ordered them to be hanged for disobeying British government rule. The citizens of Purkazi are demanding Suli wala Bagh to be declared as a National ‘Shaheed Sthal’. Thousands of people participated in a Tiranga Yatra under the leadership of Zaheer Farooqui on 15 August 2018.
Events
The Chairman Advocate Farooqui has organized the patriotic program "Ek Shaam Shaheedon Ke Naam" in Purkazi since 2017. On 23 March 2019, tributes were paid to the freedom fighters and the martyrs of Pulawama. The relatives of
Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was a charismatic Indian revolutionary*
* who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer
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* in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian national ...
,
Vir Abdul Hamid, and the families of CRPF personnel who died in the
Pulwama Terror attack attended, among others.
References
{{Muzaffarnagar district
Cities and towns in Muzaffarnagar district