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The Minister for Culture and Tourism Shri Prahlad Singh Patel led the programme organised to observe the Flag Satyagraha in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

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• Flag Satyagraha was a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience during the Indian independence movement.
• It was 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.
• According to the records, the outline of the Jhanda Satyagraha was prepared in the year 1922 in a meeting held in the Town Hall of Jabalpur.
• Flag Satyagrahas were conducted most not only in the city of Jabalpur and Nagpur in 1923 but also in many other parts of India.
• On 31 December 1929 the Congress concluded the adoption of the Purna Swaraj declaration of independence with Congress President Jawaharlal Nehru hoisting the nationalist flag along the banks of the Ravi River in Lahore.
• Other notable flag satyagrahas were organised in Mysore (now in Karnataka) in 1938 known as ShivapurDhwaja Satyagraha, under leadership of T.Siddalingaih president of Mysore Congress.

Source: PIB