Khairun Miya had donated this piece of land to help further the national movement and several important meetings of well-known freedom fighters were held here.

Many prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement, such as Mahatma Gandhi, Rajendra Prasad,[1] Anugrah Narayan Sinha, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Maulana Azad, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jayaprakash Narayan and Sri Krishna Sinha addressed their rallies from here.

[2] During his Bihar visit at the time of Champaran Satyagraha, Mahatma Gandhi addressed a huge meeting at Patna Lawns.

On 27 October 2013, there were six serial bomb blasts at Gandhi Maidan just before the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi reached there to address a huge gathering.

[3] On 3 October 2014 a stampede took place in Gandhi Maidan, on the occasion of Dussehra festival, in which reportedly 32 people died.