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Naveen Jindal unfurls 108-foot national flag in Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra MP Naveen Jindal, president of the Flag Foundation of India, inaugurated a 108-foot monumental national flag at Kurukshetra University on Friday, the eve of the 80th Independence Day. The event also…
The Story in Brief
Kurukshetra MP Naveen Jindal, president of the Flag Foundation of India, inaugurated a 108-foot monumental national flag at Kurukshetra University on Friday, the eve of the 80th Independence Day. The event also marked the finale of the My Bharat Quiz, which engaged over 7,000 young participants. Vice-chancellor Prof Som Nath Sachdeva, registrar Lt Virender Pal, faculty, and students attended.
Jindal recounted his decade-long legal battle that led to the Supreme Court’s 23 January 2004 ruling establishing every Indian’s fundamental right to fly the National Flag. He said the foundation has installed over 220 monumental flags across India, starting with a 207-foot flag in Kaithal in 2009. He renewed his call for 23 January, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary, to be declared National Flag Day.
The Indian Opinion
The flag-hoisting event is being celebrated as a symbol of patriotism, but the real story is the decade-long legal battle that made it possible. Naveen Jindal’s personal fight for the right to fly the Tricolour, culminating in a 2004 Supreme Court ruling, is often glossed over in favour of spectacle. The question that remains: will the government accept Jindal’s call to declare 23 January as National Flag Day, or will this be another photo-op without policy follow-through?
Source: hindustantimes.com
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