Jamia Millia Islamia organises Tiranga rally ahead of Independence Day 2023

NEW DELHI: Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) vice-chancellor Najma Akhtar flagged off a Tiranga rally today, August 12, at the VC office lawns as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) to commemorate 76th year of Indian Independence. Students of the university and Jamia Schools, NCC cadets, NSS volunteers, teaching and non-teaching staff including Deans, HoDs and senior faculty members participated in the rally in large numbers.

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Holding tricolours in their hands and raising patriotic slogans, the participants in the rally passed through the Maulana Mohammed Ali Marg and covered the whole campus and culminated at the university amphitheatre. After the rally the volunteers distributed the National Flag in nearby localities.

Speaking on the occasion, Akhtar said: “Jamia is celebrating 76th Independence Day with great zeal, enthusiasm and patriotic fervour. We are organising a number of programmes to celebrate these glorious years of progressive independent India. I appeal to everyone to hoist Tiranga at their offices and residences to foster the spirit of nationalism and make the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign successful”.

As part of the Independence Day celebrations, Tiranga has been hoisted on top of buildings and other important places of the university. An exhibition titled 'Recalling the Horrors of the British Rule in Pictorial & Poetic Afflictions' will also be inaugurated by JMI Vice Chancellor in Premchand Achieves and Literary Centre on the same day, the institute informed.