New Delhi. August 15 has arrived. This time is the 75th anniversary of independence. In such a situation, the government has prepared a plan to hoist ‘Har Ghar Tricolor’. National flags are being prepared on a large scale to make this campaign successful all over the country. On the other hand, like every time, the politics of the flag has started happening. Congress leaders are making the same allegation this time that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) did not hoist the national flag of India for several decades after independence. Congress surrounds BJP by making these allegations, but when Congress leaders make these allegations, they may not remember that even two parties which supported it in getting power did not hoist the tricolor in their offices for decades. Whereas, together with these parties, the Congress kept fighting the elections and reached power.
We are talking about the Marxist Communist Party (CPM) and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) currently ruling in Tamil Nadu. Talking about the CPM, history tells that the party had hoisted the flag on 15 August 1947, but later it refused to hoist the flag in its offices on 15 August and 26 January, arguing that independence was not achieved and the proletariat was not for class. The CPM also alleged that this freedom is for the capitalists. The Oat Party continued to take these allegations. Then he started hoisting the national flag at his offices from the year 2021.
Now let’s talk about DMK. Even after independence, the national flag was not hoisted in the DMK office on 15 August and 26 January. M. Karunanidhi kept the tricolor away from the party office. However, whenever he was the CM of Tamil Nadu, due to his constitutional obligation, he kept on hoisting the flag in a public program. After the death of Karunanidhi, party president MK Stalin hoisted the national flag for the first time in the DMK office on 15 August 2020. The special thing is that whether it is CPM or DMK, Congress kept close to both. Contested elections with them and also formed the government at the center, but Congress leaders keep silent on this that it was these allies who had kept distance from the tricolor for a long time. Only RSS comes under its target.