Patna, Aug 15: Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, unrolled the Tricolour Flag at the heart of Gandhi Maidan on the Independence Day celebration. CM hoisted the flag at 9 am followed by a parade of the administration on the Parade Ground.
However, the ceremony was welcomed by the drizzling and soon after the hoisting ceremony it rained heavily. The Audience was prepared and used their umbrella to save themselves from the rain. Those who have nothing over their head didn’t mind the rain and enjoyed the ceremony.
The CM’s speech received a huge applause though the voice was not clear at the Public Gallery. After the speech the floats ceremony started.
The first float revived the scenario of 1857, which have Kunwar Singh’s statue along with characters like Mangal Pandey, Britishers and other revolutionaries. Another float of Information and communication department showed Pir Ali’s Huge Painting and his binding shop.
Two floats had huge picture of Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams respectively but the irony of the picture is that both the pictures had American flag in their background. Some floats narrate the advantages of industrialization such as machine to make leaf plates. Social Welfare department made a float which had educated handicapped children on the float. One of the floats had dummy of Sudha products that was a mere advertisement.
Other floats showed Pollution control machines, BIADA, advantages of mother’s milk, public literacy campaign, complete purification campaign, BREDA, National health rural mission, State aids control, Bihar shiksha pariojana parishand, and vaccination of domestic animals.
However, the Independence Day was virtually washed off in other parts of the city due to heavy rainfall and water logging. In the present day this is the major problem that the state is facing. Many schools and institutions cancelled the flag hoisting program. As compared to the last year very few people played patriotic songs in every area.
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