BJP’s ‘Tiranga Yatra’ aims at evoking nationalism on Independence Day

The Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to celebrate country’s 70th Independence Day with party’s ‘Tiranga Yatra’ aiming at evoking ‘nationalism’ and ‘patriotism’.

While addressing BJP's Parliamentary Party meeting last week, the Prime Minister gave detailed brief on how the rallies should be carried out. The yatra will be held for a week, starting on August 15 as part of Independence Day celebration. Eying the upcoming Assembly polls in the five states the Government of India has decided to kick off the celebration from one of the crucial poll-bound states, Uttar Pradesh.

The total 1 lakh 20 thousand polling booths in 403 Assembly seats across the state have been divided into three divisions. Each division will be executing the seven-day long program in 100 respective polling booths by party executives.

The Information and Broadcast Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and Culture Minster Dr Mahesh Sharma, who have been appointed to overlook the celebrations. The week long celebrations would include the Tiranga yatra, rallies with MPs in their respective constituencies on a two-wheeler with the national flag. "Five groups of executives have been appointed in each division to monitor the rallies," a senior BJP leader added.

Modi also wanted the BJP Parliamentarians to inform the people of the 70 achievements of the government on its completion of two years.

Amid the ongoing unrest in the Valley, the move comes as an opportunity to re-unit the people of the country and to grab the attention of the media within the country and overseas. 

The idea found support for it from various quarters including BJP MP Anurag Thakur, one of the younger parliamentarians who said that the Indian flag was not just a cloth but had immense power to unite crores of Indians.

The rally is being undertaken with the hope of instilling a nationalist fervor, optimism in the functioning of the government, its achievements in the past two years and also gain ground, party sources said.