
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 12: To celebrate the success of Operation Sindoor and to make the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign successful, Traders Federation Ware House-Nehru Market has decided to provide a free National Flag to everyone.
Any individual, social or business organization of J&K can take the National Flag without any cost. The Federation has also decided to distribute Tricolor free of cost among the shopkeepers of its entire ‘Mandi’ so that it can be seen waving in the entire ‘Mandi’ between August 13 to 15.
This was announced today by Deepak Gupta, president of the Federation, while addressing a press conference in the Federation office. Gupta said that the initiative started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started appearing to be like the National festival as each and every citizen in J&K has been voluntarily hoisting the Tricolours at their homes and business establishments besides replacing their profile pictures with National Flags on social media.
He said that there is easy availability of the National Flag and people are buying the same but to encourage more and more people and to further strengthen the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign, the Federation has decided to distribute Tricolor without any cost. The Federation wanted that every single person in J&K unfurl the National Flag at his or her residence and also business establishment, he said.
On the occasion, Deepak Gupta also appealed to the general public to boycott foreign goods. “The soldiers of our country are fighting the enemies on the border but an enemy is making a place in our homes which we will have to drive out together,” he said and appealed public to take a pledge to boycott foreign goods and adopt Make in India products on this Independence Day.
Dheeraj Mahajan (senior vice-president, Traders Federation Ware House, Nehru Market), Abhimanyu Gupta (general secretary) and Rahul Gupta (secretary) were also present in the press conference.