To commemorate this event an annual festival called "Baldev Chhat Ka Mela" is held here, and a "Dauji temple" in honor of Balrama is situated in Banchari village 25 km from Palwal on Grand Trunk Road.
[2] The local tradition identifies Palwal with the Apelava town mentioned in the Mahabharata, which was later restored by Vikramaditya.
[4] A historical building by the name 'Gandhi Seva Ashram' and a Museum was made in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.
Mahatma Gandhi was arrested on 10 April 1919 at Palwal railway station while going to Punjab against the Rowlatt Act.
Keeping this memory alive lasting on October 2, 1938, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had kept it.