Modi’s ‘Meri Maati Mera Desh’ Campaign
Omkar Dattatray
Prime minister Narendra Modi will launch a novel and innovative campaign called Meri Maati Mera Desh in the Amrit kaal and Azadi Ka Amrit Mohatsav in run up to the Independence day 15th August 2023 .It will be a big campaign aimed at honoring the freedom fighters and other martyrs who had sacrificed their precious lives for the country .It is a campaign aimed to arouse patriotism ,nationalism and love and respect for the country and for the martyrs who have sacrificed everything for the country and even their lives and the nation will remain grateful to these martyrs for generations .
The campaign will be launched to honor martyr brave hearts of the country .Modi has said in his monthly Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast that a campaign called Meri Maati Mera Desh will be initiated throughout the country to honor martyrs in the Amrit Mohatsav and as the time has come for celebrating the independence day that is August 15,2023.During this campaign various programmes will be organized across the country to remember and honor the martyrs who laid their lives for the sake of the nation .Meri Maati Mera Desh campaign should not remain the prime ministers campaign only but should become a mass campaign and movement .
This national and peoples campaign will arouse the feelings of patriotism ,nationalism and honor for those who had become martyrs for maintaining unity ,integrity and upholding the sovereignty of the nation. The general masses of the country should participate in this novel and innovative campaign to honor the brave hearts who had sacrificed everything and even their valued and precious lives for the country.PM Modi deserves to be complemented and praised for announcing that the country is going to launch ‘Meri Maati Mera Desh Campaign to remember and honor the martyrs for having sacrificed their everything at the altar of the country .
Such campaigns are needed and are necessary to remember and honor the brave hearts for having sacrificed everything for the country .Modi said an Amrit Kalash Yatra will also be taken out during this campaign .This Amrit Kalash Yatra ,carrying the soil of different parts of the country in 7500 Kalash will reach national capital Delhi .This Yatra will also carry plants from various parts of the country .From 7500 Kalash ,soil and plants that will come to Delhi,an’Amrit Vatika will be built close to national war memorial .
A new initiative will be commenced before 15 August 2023 to remember and honor the martyrs and their families called Meri Maati Mera Desh campaign.PM said a special campaign will be launched across the country to remember and honor martyrs .He said these days when the country is reverberating with the Amrit Mohatsav ,a big campaign will be started to remember and honor the brave hearts who sacrificed their everything for the cause of the nation .
The Amrit Vatika will be build and this will also be the grand symbol of Eak Bharat,Shrasht Bharat.Prime minister Said that he had talked about five resolves –Panch Pran last year in his independence address from the Red Fort for next 25 years of the Amrit Mohatsav and through participation in Meri Maati Mera Desh campaign we will promise to fulfill the Panch Pran .The centre government of Modi is going to start a campaign called Meri Maati Mera Desh throughout the country to honor and remember the martyrs and freedom fighters .under this campaign various programmes will be organized in cities and villages to honor and remember the freedom fighters and martyrs. To honor and remember lakhs of unsung and unheard freedom fighters and all those who became martyrs for the cause of protecting the unity ,integrity and sovereignty of the country ,the names of these bravehearts will be inscribed in villages and cities across the country and the aim is to remember and honor the freedom fighters and their family members will also be honored .
This campaign will commence on August 9 and conclude on August 30.Whenever Modi gets an opportunity he remembers the freedom fighters and other martyrs and honors and remembers these great national heroes .Today when we are celebrating the Amrit Mohatsav ,the Modi government is about to launch Meri Maati Mera Desh campaign to remember and honor the freedom fighters and other martyrs and their names will be inscribed .In rural areas that is villages from August 9 to 15th August ,freedom fighters will be honored and those who are not alive ,their families will be honored.
Under this programmme name plates inscribing the name of the freedom fighters and other martyrs will be written and these name plates will be installed in village Panchayts and other social places as a mark of respect to the freedom fighters and leaders who sacrificed everything for the nation .Besides this in every village 79 plants will be planted for the protection of the environment .In cities programmes will be organized from 16th August to 25 August to remember and honor the freedom fighters and the great personalities who worked for the country and sacrificed everything for the country.PM said that those freedom fighters and other martyrs who had sacrificed everything for the sake of the country will be remembered and honored across the length and breadth of the country from villages to cities and under the campaign called Meri Maati Mera Bharat various prigrammes will be organized and special inscriptions will be installed in lakhs of panchayts to honor the freedom fighters and martyrs .
In brief Meri Maati Mera Desh campaign of the Modi government shows that the prime minister is committed to honor and respect the freedom fighters and martyrs and for the remembering and honoring the known and unsung freedom fighters and martyrs a nationwide campaign will be launched to honor and remember the bravehearts and martyrs who have made valuable sacrifices of even their lives for the cause of the nation.Such campaigns and programmes are the need of the hour as it will help in arousing the feeling of patriotism ,nationalism and love for the nation and also for all those martyrs who had sacrificed their everything for the sake of the nation .Modi deserves a pat at his back for having announced that Meri Maati Mera Desh campaign will be launched across the country for remembering and honoring the martyrs ,freedom fighters and other brave hearts .
The Meri Maati Mera Desh Campaign should become a people’s movement and not be limited to government level only .Let us resolve to remember and honor the martyrs ,freedom fighters and all those great selfless leaders who sacrificed their everything for the country .Let us ignite the flames of patriotism and nationalism with the novel and innovative campaign called Meri Maati Mera Desh in the whole country.
(The author is a columnist, social and KP activist)