Seeking to counter Bharatiya Janata Party's Hidutva card in Madhya Pradesh where assembly polls are due this year-end, Chief Minister Digvijay Singh on Sunday kicked off a 19-day campaign across the state aimed at inculcating a feeling of nationalism among the people.
The 19-day 'Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara' campaigan will end on Martyrs Day on January 30, Indore collector Mohammad Suleiman, the brain behind the campaign alongwith Seva Sourabh, a non-government organisation, said.
Freedom fighter Padmashree Babulal Patodi, who was witness to the country's Independence celebrations in 1947, said: "After the Independence, I am seeing for the first time such nationalistic fervour in the city."
Navin Jindal, on whose Public Interest Litigation the Supreme Court recently ruled that the national flag can be hoisted by any Indian, members of Parliament Jyotiraditya Scindia , Sachin Pilot and Mohammad Afzal and Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president R K Malviya also addressed the gathering.