DEFENCE Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday virtually launched multiple major events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence. “Due to these programmes, not only there is a rise in national consciousness, but there is also an increase in the self-esteem the country has,” he said during a speech.

One of the events launched was of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) whose 75 teams would be leaving Friday for 75 remote places in the border areas of the country to unfurl the national flag on August 15.

The Indian Coast Guard will be unfurling the national flag at 100 islands pan-India as a part of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

Singh said that in order to maintain unity, integrity and sovereignty of the country, it is important that the feeling of national self-esteem is present in the citizens, and that is the purpose of the programs being launched Friday.

If this feeling of national self-esteem was not present in Chandrashekhar Azad, Sardar Bhagat Singh, Khudiram Bose, Asfaqullah Khan, would the country have been able tocelebrate this ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, he asked.