The Independence Day celebrations turned vibrant and colourful in Kalaghatagi on Monday with a large number of people from the town and nearby villages carrying out a 9-km-long national flag in a procession to mark the occasion and scores of folk troupes joined them in the celebration.
Santosh Lad Foundation, headed by former Minister and former MLA of Kalaghatagi Santosh Lad, had organised the ‘Tiranga Maha Rally’ to mark 75 years of India’s independence and it received an overwhelming response.
The slogans of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’, ‘Vande Matan’, ‘Jai Hind’, ‘Hindustan Zindabad’ reverberated in the air as the bundle of the tricolour mounted on a vehicle was slowly unwound and people held it and carried it.