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New Delhi : Union Home Affairs and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on October 2, 2021, flagged-off an All India Car Rally of National Security Guard (NSG) ‘Sudarshan Bharat Parikrama’ from the historic Red Fort in Delhi on the occasion of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ organised as part of celebrations of 75th anniversary of the country’s Independence.
Shah also flagged-in the All India Cycle Rallies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs). On this occasion, he felicitated Tokyo Olympic medalist Bajrang Punia. Ministers of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, Ajay Kumar Mishra, and Nishith Pramanik, Union Home Secretary and senior officers of the Government of India and Armed Police Forces were also present at the function.
Shah, in his address, said that today is a very important and auspicious day for the whole country. Today is the birth anniversary of two great men of India: Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. He said if we look carefully at the history of India after the year 1900, we find that both these great men have left their indelible impression on the country’s history. Mahatma Gandhi started a movement against injustice and tyranny from South Africa and gave a mantra called Satyagraha to the world. After returning to India, seeing the extreme poverty, unimaginable exploitation and partiality of the colonial rulers, Gandhi ji devoted his life in the service of Mother India and did everything possible to get freedom for the country.
A unique kind of freedom struggle took place in India under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, where no one took up arms, there was no violence and no bloodshed and 30 crore Indians followed Bapu and in the end India got independence on August 15, 1947, Shah said. He said that the country still remembers the contribution of Bapu in the Freedom Movement and the path shown by him.
Shah said that Lal Bahadur Shastri not only changed all the dimensions of the country’s security, but in the 1965 War, our forces gave a befitting reply to the enemy under his leadership. He said that Lal Bahadur Shastri set an excellent example of how selfless service can be provided in a democracy in a very short span of time. The slogan ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ given by Shastri ji is relevant even today, shah said.
The Union Home said that today around 1,000 personnel of CAPFs reached Rajghat paying homage to thousands of martyrs during their journey across the country. Shah said that 45 cycle rallies of CAPF from various places across the country have covered a distance of 41,000 kilometres in a month to reach the Red Fort in Delhi. Shah said that the cycle rallies that covered a distance of 41,000 km and the Sudarshan Bharat Parikrama Car Rally of the NSG starting on October 2, 2021, are a part of a consciousness awakening in the country.
He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had started the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav on the date when the Dandi March took place and now this Amrit Mahotsav is awakening a new consciousness in the minds of the people, according to a PIB release.
Shah said that the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav has two main objectives -efforts to revive the immortal saga of unsung martyrs who made the supreme sacrifice in different incidents in every state, district, town and village of the country from the period of foreign invasions to the revolt of 1857 and from 1857 to 1947 for Independence and to connect with the development of the country with this awakening of the spirit of patriotism in the new generation.
Calling upon the youth of the country, Shah said that we may not get the privilege of sacricing our lives for the country, but it is in our hands to live for the country. No sacrifice is required for this, but, we have to only ensure our participation in the development of the country. Shah said that it is our collective responsibility to make the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav a source of inspiration, a medium of awakening consciousness, and a path for the development of India.
During its 7,500 km long journey, the NSG’s car rally, that was flagged-off today, will pass through important and historical places associated with the Freedom Movement and Freedom Fighters of the country and end on October 30, 2021, at the Police Memorial in New Delhi.
NSG’s car rally will pass through 18 cities in 12 states of the nation and will visit historic places like Kakori Memorial (Lucknow), Bharat Mata Mandir (Varanasi), Netaji Bhawan Barrackpore (Kolkata), Swaraj Ashram (Bhubaneswar), Tilak Ghat (Chennai), Freedom Park (Bengaluru), Mani Bhawan / August Kranti Maidan (Mumbai) and Sabarmati Ashram (Ahmedabad).