Hyderabad, Feb. 28 -- On February 28, 2002, the second day after riots broke out in Gujarat, alongside hundreds of Muslim men, women and children, then Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was killed, his body slashed into pieces and burnt during the Gulbarg Society massacre. 23 years on, his party, the Indian National Congress fails to remember their leader who stood by the party and its ideals till his last breath.

Ehsan Jafri's death anniversary in 2025 is also marked as the first after the death of his wife, Zakiya Jafri, who dedicated her life after surviving the massacre, in legal battles to bring to justice the culprits of her husband's killing. She passed away on February 1, 2025, aged 86, leaving a legacy of resistance against the Hindutva m...