Independence Day of India
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It is the largest national holiday in India, celebrated annually on August 15. On this day in 1947, over the walls of the Red Fort in Delhi, the first Prime Minister of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru, with a huge crowd of people, raised the tricolor flag of independent India. This marked a new stage in the history of the ancient country.
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The flag-raising ceremony is held on this day in many cities and even villages of the country. Traditional is the ritual of speeches by local politicians. All these speeches, as a rule, are united by the presence of historical excursions reminding the audience of the difficult path of India to achieve independence, the glorious traditions of the national liberation struggle.
On Independence Day, state governors hold festive receptions. Solemn meetings are also organized by a number of semi-governmental and public organizations.
Until India became a republic in 1950. Independence Day was the only national holiday, the official day off of all government agencies, private industrial and commercial enterprises, etc. In those years (1947-1949) on the occasion of this holiday, a military parade was held in the capital.
Nowadays, giving way to the main holiday, Republic Day, Independence Day is celebrated, nevertheless, with mass celebrations. The holiday is celebrated by all citizens of India, regardless of nationality or religion. In a sense, this holiday symbolizes the desire of democratic India to strengthen the unity of the country, intercommunal disunity, overcoming the remaining feudal vestiges.