its claim to fame as harbingers of freedom he also cautioned against misuse of military designations used in history text books and other literature he opined that given the rounds that were fired at the people gathered in enclosed space the casualties would have been much more and stressed the need for ascertaining the number of victims from the records of military repositoriesdr g venakat ram reddy a retired civil servant and president of tchr dwelt on the details of the incident and its impact on the course of freedom struggle he stated that by any reckoning it was a dastardly act and laid bare the colonial nature of british rule in india whose sole objective was to stifle their urge for freedom however the repressive measures they took were met with passive resistance by the indians under the leadership of mahatma gandhi in that sense he observed violence of the scale such as that which was unleashed at jallianwala bagh was replied with more powerful weapon called nonviolencechiranjeevi kolluri vicepresident tchr also spoke arifuddin a well known telangana activist and others attended the meeting