Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: BJP To Carry Out Silent Processions, JP Nadda & CM Yogi To Participate

BJP President JP Nadda will flag off the procession at 5 pm today from Jantar Mantar after which he will participate in the rally.

BJP President JP Nadda and UP CM Yogi Adityanath will take part in the silent rally.

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New Delhi: Ahead of Independence Day celebration on the 75th year anniversary and programmes like ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ to mark the celebration, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday will take out silent processions to observe the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day. The procession will be taken out across the country by the leaders and members of the saffron party. 

BJP President JP Nadda will flag off a procession at 5 pm today from Jantar Mantar after which he will participate in the rally. Party leaders and workers will take out a silent procession carrying the national flag in all the districts of the country and will remember the horrors of the partition of India.

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh will also mark the Partition day today. Around 300 participants will gather outside Lok Bhavan at 5 pm. Under the leadership of CM Yogi Adityanath, a silent march will be taken out at 5.30 pm. 

CM Yogi will pay floral tributes at the statue of Sardar Patel and the picture of Mother India. On this occasion, CM Yogi will also inaugurate the exhibition of the horrors of Partition.

Partition Day will also be observed in Haryana also. On this occasion, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will attend a state level program in Kurukshetra. At the same time, Union Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries Purushottam Rupala will address a Partition Memorial Day program in Gurugram. 

To commemorate the ‘horrors of the Partition’ the Union Government is holding exhibitions at key public places such as Railway Stations, airports, and malls between August 10 and August 14. 

As per a report by news agency PTI, the Union Ministry of Culture had written to the Railway Ministry to hold such exhibitions on station premises to reach out to the maximum number of people.

Besides this, exhibitions on the "tragedy of the Partition" would be organised at other important public places such as banks, post offices, airports, shopping malls, educational institutions, petrol pumps, skill development centres and vocational training institutes.

In his Independence Day speech last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared August 14 to be observed as "Partition Horrors Remembrance Day".