The ‘Monumental Flag’ featuring the national tricolour will be unfurled atop a mast measuring 207 feet at Janeshwar Mishra Park, Gomati Nagar by Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on the occasion of the 77th birthday of the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday. Plans are afoot to install lights so that the flag is visible from long distance.
SP spokesman and minister Rajendra Choudhary said that the birthday of Mulayam Singh Yadav will be celebrated across the state and seminars will be organized to highlight the political struggle and achievements of the SP leader.
“Frontal organizations will organise blood donation camps, distribute fruits in hospitals, clothes to the poor and also organise cultural programmes,” said Choudhary. He informedthat the Samajwadi party was set up on November 4, 1992 at the Begum Hazrat Mahal Park in lucknow and Mulayam Singh was elected as the national chief. He continues to be elected unopposed for last 23 years.