Kolkata, June 30 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today greeted the tribal people on the occasion of the solemn "Hul Diwas."

"To mark the Hul Diwas, I extend my heartiest greetings to my tribal brothers and sisters," the chief minister said in a message to the Aboriginal people of the tribal community.

Banerjee said that the struggle of the Santhals under Sidho and Kanho against the oppression of the British remains inspirational even today.

She said that her government has named a university established in the Junglemahal region in the western part of the state after the two tribal heroes, Sidho and Kanho.

The institution is a state university in the tribal-dominated Purulia district.

The Hul Diwas is observed every year on June 30 to mark the Santhal Rebellion of 1855, one of the first tribal uprisings against British colonial rule and the feudal-zamindari system.

The movement was initiated by the Santhal tribe, primarily led by Sidho Murmu and Kanhu Murmu, with the support of thousands of tribal men and women. It is a day of cultural pride, remembrance, and resistance for the tribal communities of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, and Bihar.

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