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Flag Satyagraha

Topics Covered: The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country.

Flag Satyagraha:

Context:

The Ministry of Culture on 18th June had organised a programme to observe the Flag Satyagraha in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

What is Flag Satyagraha?

  1. The Flag Satyagraha movement by the freedom fighters shook the British government and it infused a new life into the freedom movement.
  2. Also called the Jhanda Satyagraha, it was held in Jabalpur and Nagpur in 1923.
  3. The news of flag hoisting in Jabalpur spread like fire in the country and after flags were hoisted at several places across the country.

Significance:

It is a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience that focused on exercising the right and freedom to hoist the nationalist flag and challenge the legitimacy of the British Rule in India through the defiance of laws prohibiting the hoisting of nationalist flags and restricting civil freedoms.

Outcomes:

The arrest of nationalist protestors demanding the right to hoist the flag caused an outcry across India especially as Gandhi had recently been arrested.

  • Nationalist leaders such as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Jamnalal Bajaj, Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Vinoba Bhave organised the revolt and thousands of people from different regions traveled to Nagpur and other parts of the Central Provinces to participate in civil disobedience.
  • In the end, the British negotiated an agreement with Patel and other Congress leaders permitting the protestors to conduct their march unhindered and obtaining the release of all those arrested.

 

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InstaLinks:

Prelims Link:

  1. When was the flag designed by Venkayya officially accepted by the Indian National Congress?
  2. Adoption of National Flag by the Constituent Assembly.
  3. Flag Code of India- overview.
  4. Manufacturer of the national flag in India.
  5. About Flag Protests in India.

Mains Link:

Discuss the key provisions of Flag Code of India, 2002.

Sources: PIB.