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Libia Lobo Sardesai
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- Goan freedom fighter Libia Lobo Sardesai, 100, was honoured with the Padma Shri for her pivotal role in the state’s liberation struggle.
- From 1955 to 1961, Libia and her colleague Vaman Sardesai ran an underground radio station from the jungles of the Western Ghats.
- It was she who announced the news of Goa’s liberation from four-and-a-half centuries of Portuguese rule on December 19, 1961.
- On the morning of December 19, 1961, Libia and Vaman flew over Panaji in an Indian Air Force (IAF) plane with a radio transmitter aboard and a loudspeaker fitted on the plane’s belly, dropping leaflets and announcing in Portuguese and Konkani that the Portuguese had surrendered.
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