PM Modi to launch 70 Saal Azadi-Zara Yaad Karo Kurbani programme on Aug 9

02 August, New Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the programme – 70 Saal Azadi – Zara Yaad Karo Kurbani – on the 9th of this month.

Talking to media after BJP Parliamentary Board meeting in New Delhi today, Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said, the campaign is aimed at developing a feeling in every person that nation is first and individual is secondary. He said, it will provide an opportunity for the people to recall the supreme sacrifice made by freedom fighters during freedom struggle.

The Minister said, a week-long Tiranga Yatra to evoke nationalism and patriotism will also be undertaken from the 15th of this month on the occasion of Independence Day.

He said, MPs and MLAs have been asked to take part in the Yatra carrying the Tricolour and visit their constituencies to remind people how the country was freed. Replying to a media query from where the Prime Minister will launch the programme, Naidu said details are being worked out.