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Kharge says Har Ghar Tiranga should begin at RSS HQ
Karnataka home minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday targeted the BJP’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign, saying it should start at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur. In a post on X,…
The Story in Brief
Karnataka home minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday targeted the BJP’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign, saying it should start at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Nagpur. In a post on X, he noted that the RSS did not hoist the Indian National Flag at its Nagpur headquarters for over five decades after Independence, and only hoisted the Tricolour in 2002.
Kharge questioned why the RSS had flown the Bhagwa Dhwaj over the national flag all those years, and asked how many RSS route marches had seen swayamsevaks carrying the Tricolour. The campaign, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2022, encourages citizens to hoist the flag at home ahead of Independence Day.
The Indian Opinion
Both sides are trading patriotism points. The BJP’s campaign asks every citizen to fly the Tricolour, while Kharge drags up the RSS’s historical reluctance to hoist it. But the RSS has flown the national flag at its headquarters for over two decades now. The real test is not who waved it first, but whether the campaign actually makes the flag a personal symbol for Indians. Will the RSS now publicly demonstrate carrying the Tricolour in its route marches? That would settle the point.
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, deccanherald.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
