Addressing a gathering,Haryana CM Khattar said that Phule had dedicated his entire life for the uplift of farmers and poor. He inaugurated the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Chowk in Kurukshetra and unveiled his statue. The CM announced to give ₹31 lakh from his personal funds to Saini community.
The Congress-NCP government in 2003 had decided to bring out the biopic on the lines of the one on Dr B. R. Ambedkar. In the past two decades, all the four prominent parties in the state have been in power in different permutations and combinations but not one has taken the effort to make the movie a reality.