Raja Warring launches five-day ‘Tiranga Yatra’ from Tarn Taran

The Punjab Congress leaders will cover about 2,000 kilometres, during a five-day Tiranga Yatra from Tuesday (August 9) to August 14. All senior leaders have been assigned 75km each to be covered during the five days beginning Tuesday

KHEMKARAN (TARN TARAN): Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Tuesday launched the five-day ‘Tiranga Yatra’ to mark the 75 years of Independence of the country from here. The programme was organised by senior party leader and former MLA Sukhpal Singh Bhullar.

Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Tuesday launched the five-day ‘Tiranga Yatra’ to mark the 75 years of Independence of the country from here. The programme was organised by senior party leader and former MLA Sukhpal Singh Bhullar.

The Punjab Congress leaders will cover about 2,000 kilometres, during a five-day yatra from Tuesday (August 9) to August 14. All senior leaders have been assigned 75km each to be covered during the five days beginning Tuesday.

The event also coincided with the August Kranti Divas, as it was on this day in 1942 that the Congress had launched the ‘Quit India Movement’ which eventually led the country to freedom after five years, said Warring.

Before starting the ‘Tiranga Yatra’, Warring paid obeisance at the historic Gurdwara Janam Sathan Baba Deep Singh. After praying for peace and progress of the state and the country, he led the yatra of thousands of Congress workers who were sporting national Tricolour across different places. During the five day ‘Tiranga Yatra’, the Punjab Congress president will cover 75km. Other party leaders are also leading similar yatras across the state in all the 117 constituencies.

Speaking before start of the yatra, Warring said: “the Congress, unlike the Bharatiya Janata Party or any other political party in the country, had a great and glorious history of sacrifice for the national Tricolour”. He pointed out: “It was on this day, 80 years ago on August 9, 1942, the young Congress leader Aruna Asif Ali took the lead to unfurl the Tricolour after the entire Congress leadership had been jailed by the British.”

Taking a dig at the BJP’s claims over nationalism, the PCC president said, the BJP has a lot to learn from the Congress on the issue of nationalism. “They are no comparison to us when it comes to watching and safeguarding the national interest and our leaders have laid down their lives for nationalism, both before and after the independence of the country,” he said.

He condemned all those forces which ‘were trying to again vitiate the peaceful atmosphere of the state by resorting to divisive tactics”, which have otherwise already been rejected by the Punjabis time and again, he added. He said, all those opposed to hoisting and unfurling of the national flag were not friends of Punjab but were playing in the hands of the enemies of Punjab and Punjabis.

The PCC president assured that the Congress and its leaders will never hesitate in giving their life and blood for safeguarding the unity and the integrity of the country and to ensure communal harmony and brotherhood in the state. “We have done it in the past and we will not hesitate in the future either to safeguard peace, harmony, brotherhood and unity and integrity of the country”, he asserted.

PCC president was accompanied by former minister Gurkirat Singh Kotli, Dr Dharamveer Agnihotri, Lakhvir Singh Lakha, Santokh Singh Bhalaipur, Sumit Singh, Raja Gill and others.