Assam : People take out rally with 3.5 km long tricolour national flag, BSF celebrates I-Day along Indo-Bangladesh border
Guwahati, Aug 15 (IBNS): The members of Sunrise Youth Club at Uparkhuti area in Assam’s Baksa district, along with local people, took out a rally with 3.5 km long tricolour national flag to celebrate the 72nd Independence Day.
Apart from the members of the club, several thousand of students, local people held the 3.5 km long flag above their hands while they took participate in the rally.
The large cotton flag was made by the club to pay reverence to the martyrs of Indian freedom movement and jawans and honour Assam athlete Hima Das, a golden girl of India, who won the gold in the 400m race at the IAAF World U-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland and scripted history after she clocked 51.46 seconds to claim top position and becoming first Indian sprinter to do so in a global track event.
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“We have not made it to create a record. We have made it to pay reverence to the martyrs of Indian freedom movement and to honour Hima Das,” Bapan Das, President of Sunrise Youth Club said.
On the other hand, the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel have also celebrated the 72nd Independence Day along Indo-Bangladesh border on Wednesday.
The BSF personnel had hoisted the tricolour national flag at Malegarh War Memorial near Sutarkandi Border Outpost (BOP) in Assam’s Karimganj district in presence of top BSF officials, students and local people.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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