Janhastakshep organized a memorial public meeting:  “A Crusader for Anti Displacement Movements; Rajendra Sadangi” for his irreplaceable contribution to these ongoing struggles, on the 4th of April 2008 at Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi. People from different walks of life including the intelligentsia, students, lawyers, the working class and political activists attended the meeting. Shri Rajendra Sadangi, Convener of Lok Pakhya - Orissa, passed away on 27th March,2008 after being taken ill with cerebral malaria. 

To commemorate the immense sacrifices of the Indian people in the Great War of Indian Independence (1857-59), to take the pledge of continuing the struggle for genuine independence ahead, and for that to intensify struggle to overthrow the rule of the pro-imperialist big capitalists and big landlords, thousands upon thousands of the people from different parts of the country assembled at Meerut on May 10, 2007. It was from Meerut that on May 10, 1857 Indian people began the heroic war which overthrew the colonial rule over a large part of the country. Today is the 150th anniversary of that great war which shook the world and demonstrated the strong yearning of Indian people to be masters of their destiny.

The processionists came from different parts of the country, from Punjab, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Orissa, Haryana, Jharkhand, and Uttaranchal.