Udaipur Marks Hiroshima Day with Rally and Public Meeting Calling for Global Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

Udaipur, The stark truth of modern warfare—that it is the sons of workers and farmers who pay the ultimate price—resonated powerfully during a Hiroshima Day rally and subsequent public meeting outside the District Collectorate in Udaipur. Organised by a joint platform of citizens and people’s organisations, the gathering condemned the global arms race, warning that spiralling military budgets cut deeply into social welfare spending, directly impacting ordinary working people. Speakers emphasised that war, by its very nature, is both anti-human and anti-environment.

Rally Demands End to Wars and Nuclear Weapons

Joint platform convenor Mannaram Dangi demanded an immediate halt to the massacre of Palestinians, urgent relief for the victims, and peaceful resolution to all conflicts. He held the US superpower chiefly responsible for global wars and stressed the rally’s aim: uniting humanitarian and anti-war forces worldwide, abolishing nuclear weapons within a set timeframe, and ending the veto power of the five nuclear-armed nations.

Farhat Bano of AIPWA denounced the killing of children and women in Gaza as a crime against humanity. Ramdayal Meena, National Convenor of the World Human Welfare Association, paid tribute to the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and underlined the urgent need for disarmament.

Voices Against Imperialism and Corporate Control

Saurabh Naruka of AICCTU identified imperialist corporate capital’s scramble for resources as the root cause of wars. Jayantilal Meena of the Democratic Workers’ Union accused Israel, backed by US leadership, of seeking control over Middle East petroleum and mineral wealth. Himmat Changwal of CPI labelled world leaders as servants of imperialism and corporate power, criticising India’s indecisive stance and expressing solidarity with all anti-Israel and anti-US resistance.

Veteran journalist Himmat Seth condemned mainstream media for siding with imperialist, war-mongering regimes, accusing Indian media of suppressing the truth. Advocates Mohammad Sharif Chhipa and Siddiqui, along with Ramchandra Salvi, Kusum Meghwal, Pyara Bhai, and others, voiced strong opposition to war. Mustaq Chanchal recited an anti-war poem. The meeting was moderated by D.S. Paliwal and concluded with a vote of thanks from Gulab Noor Pathan.

The Hiroshima Day Rally

Earlier in the day, citizens, intellectuals, and representatives from various organisations marched from Shaheed Smarak, Town Hall to the Collectorate, commemorating the atomic tragedy of Hiroshima. Leading the rally, women carried banners declaring “No War, We Want Lasting Peace” and “Stop the Massacre of Palestinians, Ensure Full Relief to Gaza’s People.”

Participants chanted slogans such as “Stop the War,” “Down with America and Israel for Massacres,” and “Down with Arms Dealers,” marching in organised pairs. The procession included notable figures like Ajay S. Mehta of Seva Mandir, environmentalist Nandkishore Sharma, social activist Sudhir Katiyar, Shankar Lal Chaudhary of CPI (ML), Advocate Subhash Shrimali, Hemendra Chhandalia, and D.C. Meghwal of the Democratic Workers’ Union.

Carrying placards demanding an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, halting the arms race, and implementing immediate ceasefires, the rally wound its way through Surajpole, Bapu Bazaar, and Delhi Gate before converging outside the Collectorate. There, powerful slogans gave way to the public meeting—an emphatic call for peace, justice, and a world free from the shadow of nuclear annihilation.