Representations submitted at Pune for prevention of abuse of national flags

• HJS drive for maintaining honour of national flags : Devout Hindus spontaneously participate in the drive
• ‘Hindutvavadis’ and HJS volunteers submitting representations to police officers at various places

Pune : Plastic and paper national flags bought with lot of enthusiasm on national festivals are found strewn all over roads within short time after buying. The ‘sanskar’ of preserving honour of national flags has not been inculcated which leads to abuse of national flags. Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) has been undertaking drive for past several years for maintaining honour of national flags. As a part of this drive, HJS submitted representations to different police stations, schools and colleges etc Demand has been made through the representation that stringent action should be taken against the vendors selling plastic national flags since there is ban on sale of plastic and paper national flags.

1. PI Rajendra Chavan of Faraskhana police station, PI Sunil Pinjan of Vishrambaug police station, senior PI Vijaysingh Gaikwad of Bharati Vidyapeeth police station, senior PI Deepak Nikam of Sahakarnagar police station, senior PI Anil Patil of Dattawadi police station, senior PI Khanderao Khaire of Marketyard police station and senior PI Balasaheb Kopanar of Bibwewadi police station were handed over the representations. Shri. Vijaysingh Gaikwad said on receiving representation, “HJS activities are good. Let us work together for this drive.” Shri. Balasaheb Kopanar promised to take immediate action on getting information of any malpractices. Devout Hindus viz. Shri. Ramnath Das, Shri. Vikas Gogavale and volunteers of HJS were present on the occasion.

2. Shri. Jaideep Padaval of ‘Vruksha Sanvardhan Samiti’ and HJS volunteers gave such representation to PI Raghunath Fuge of Kothrud police station.

3. PI Arvind Jondhale of Sangavi police station was also given similar representation by Shri. Sachin Khele, Shri. Bhushan Bhole attending ‘Dharmashikshan class’, Shri. Umesh Pawar of ‘Shiva-Vandana’ Group; besides volunteers of HJS. The Principals of ‘Mastermind English School’ in Sangavi area; Municipal School of Pimpri-Chinchwad, ‘Kashi-Vishweshwar’ English School, ‘Pimpri-Chinchwad Boys’ School. Shri. Bhushan Bhole, a devout Hindu had come from Aundh on foot, walking distance of 2 kms; only for submitting the representation. (Such patriots are the true strength of this country ! – Editor, Dainik Sanatan Prabhat)

4. Senior PI Vishnu Jagatap of Sinhgad Rasta police station appreciated HJS activities while accepting the representation and said that he would create awareness amongst people in this connection. Shri. Sudhakar More, shakha-chief of Shiv Sena from Hingane; Ganesh Pawar and HJS volunteers were present for submitting representation. PI Kailas Pingale of Pune Gramin-Haveli police station was given similar representation by Shri. Harishchandra (Anna) Dangat, Shri. Devendra Shoor, priest of Mahalakshmi Temple, devout Hindus viz. Shri. Ramchandra Polekar, Shri. Somnath Shinde and HJS volunteers.

5. Similar representation was submitted to Dy. District Collector of Nagar Shri. Rajendra Patil.

Representation submitted to police and Tehasildar at Bhor

Police Thane Ammaldar Vijay Jadhav and Tehasildar Sou. Varsha Shingan-Patil of Bhor were also submitted representations on 16th January for prevention of abuse of national flags when Shri. Vinayak kaka Sanas of Pratapgad Utsav Samiti, Shri. Ashok Barik of Yoga Vedanta Samiti, Shri. Sanket Pisal, Shri. Yuvaraj Magar, Shri. Manoj Nazirkar, Shri. Mahesh Navaghane, Sanatan Sanstha’s Shri. Sahil Jadhav and HJS volunteers Shri. Vishwajit Chavan and Shri. Shrikant Borate were present.