Report of ‘Respect national flag’ drive in Maharashtra by HJS

Not a single vendor sold plastic or paper national flag at Sangadari, Solapur

• Special response by vendors to HJS drive for maintaining honour of national flags
• Congratulations to vendors exhibiting patriotism by not selling plastic or paper national flags so as to prevent their abuse ! Vendors from all other places need to learn from the vendors at Solapur !

Sangdari (Dist. Solapur) : Not a single plastic or paper national flag was sold at this place on 15thAugust, owing to awareness created by Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS). As a result, not even a small flag was found lying on the road in this village thus preventing abuse of national flags.

HJS had conducted lecture in Zilha Parishada’s school on the subject of maintaining honour of national flags. It was explained how use of paper and plastic national flags lead to their abuse; therefore, such flags should not be bought or sold.

The lecture was attended by 200 students along with 25 local residents and teachers. All teachers from the school and Shri. Ningu Tuntune made special efforts for success of such drive.

Nagpur : HJS invited as special guest on the occasion of 15th August !

Nagpur : On 15th August, at the local Hadas School, a program was organized for creating awareness amongst students and parents and HJS volunteers were invited as Chief Guest on the occasion. Shri. Atul Arvenla of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) addressed the students and parents. Boards on revolutionaries were also displayed for creating awareness. 600 to 700 students attended the program. Teachers were impressed with activities undertaken by HJS. Dr. Vanjari, a teacher, who had organized the program, said that HJS would be invited again for similar program for creating awareness amongst students.

Principal Sou. Kundale and teachers, who had liked various drives undertaken by HJS, had invited HJS as special guest. The Principal said, “Some of the volunteers of HJS are old but it was very nice to see such patriotism in them.” The school is soon going to subscribe for ‘Sanatan Prabhat’. HJS volunteers were felicitated on stage.

Amravati : Devout Hindus unite to prevent abuse of national flags

Amravati : On 15th August, drive to maintain honour of national flags was undertaken from 7.30 a.m. to 10.00 a.m. and exhibition was held on life history of revolutionaries. The program was started with ‘pujan’ of ‘Bharatmata’s picture-frame by Shri. Nilesh Tavlare of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) and Shri. Atul Khond from an organization called ‘Bhagave Vaadal’. Sale of plastic national flags, balloons and wrist-bands takes place on large scale near schools and college areas. Devout Hindus were explaining the subject to passersby and telling them to deposit the flags in donation boxes made available to them. Many citizens responded to the drive and spontaneously deposited flags in the donation boxes. (Congratulations to active citizens ! – Editor, Hindujagruti)

HJS volunteers, Shri. Mahesh Ladhake, Shri. Karan Dhote of Shri Shivapratishthan Hindustan presented demos on karate and other self-defence techniques. More than 25 devout Hindus, including HJS volunteers, Shri. Om Zagade, Shri. Chaitanya Upadhyay of Shri Shivapratishthan Hindustan, were present on the occasion.

Highlights

1. A ten year old boy took initiative in explaining the subject to people and collected national flags.

2. Devout Hindus participating in the drive for the first time rendered ‘seva’ with lot of enthusiasm.

Will the Govt. take stringent action against such police ? Police who didn’t prevent abuse of national flags !

Few youth members were carrying a huge national flag without ‘Ashok-chakra’ on it. They were stopped by devout Hindus; advising them to deposit the flag since there was no ‘Ashok-chakra’ on the same. 3-4 policemen were standing there but instead of helping devout Hindus, police instructed them not to crowd the place because it created problem for them and allowed the youth members to go with such flag.