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Puducherry Liberation Day – November 01
November 3 , 2020
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- The Union Territory of Puducherry won freedom from the foreign yoke only after seven more years of struggle after India became free on August 15, 1947.
- The merger itself was democratically decided through a referendum conducted by the French administration.
- On 18 October, 1954, the municipal councillors and the members of the Assembly representatives gave their verdict in favour of merger with India.
- Later, an agreement for the transfer of the four (Pondicherry, Karikal, Mahe and Yanam) remaining French settlements to India was signed on October 21, 1954.
- It was coming into effect on November 1, 1954.
- In 2014, The Puducherry govt declared that November 1 would be celebrated as Liberation Day of Puducherry.
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