Offering incense to commemorate General Secretary Tran Phu

On April 26, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung and leaders of Hanoi offered incense to commemorate the 120th birthday of General Secretary Tran Phu at the memorial house at 90 Tho Nhuom street.

General Secretary Tran Phu was born on May 1, 1904, in Tung Anh commune, Duc Tho district, Ha Tinh province. He grew up in an intellectual family and soon joined revolutionary activities. In October 1930, he chaired the first Party Central Committee Conference in Hong Kong (China) and proposed the Party’s Political Thesis. At this conference, he was elected General Secretary of the Party. On September 6, 1931, General Secretary Tran Phu sacrificed his life with the immortal words: “Keep your fighting spirit.”

At the incense offering ceremony, City Party Secretary Dinh Tien Dung and Hanoi City leaders expressed gratitude for General Secretary Tran Phu’s contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation. At the same time, he expressed his wish to build the capital Hanoi worthy of being a national political and administrative center, a major center of culture, science, education, economics and international transactions.

The 90 Tho Nhuom house relic is one of the important historical relics of Hanoi during the resistance period. This is where General Secretary Tran Phu – an excellent student of President Ho Chi Minh, a resilient and exemplary Communist, an outstanding son of the Party and the nation, drafted the first Political Theses. of the Party. The relic was ranked as a national historical relic by the Ministry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) on January 13, 1964.