State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would celebrate the birth anniversary of Iron Man Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on October 31, as Madhya Pradesh Unity Day.
BJP State president and MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan in a statement here on Thursday said, “BJP would celebrate the birth anniversary of country’s unity’s artisan and manufacturer of innovative India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as Madhya Pradseh Ekta Diwas.”
Chouhan further said that run for unity would be organised all over the State besides flower tributes would be paid on the statues of late leader, symposiums and seminars would also be held on the occasion.
The programs to be held on the occasion at Sagar, Bhopal and Jabalpur would be attended by the central party leaders and chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan who would also be the main speakers on the occasion. He said that the chief minister would unveil the statue of Iron man’s anniversary on October 31 at Sagar while in state capital Bhopal party’s national vice president and state on-charge Vinay Sahasrabuddhe would flag off the run for unity from TT Nagar stadium at 8 am. The unity run after passing through the New Market area would return to the stadium, he added.
He said that Sahasrabuddhe would pay floral tributes to Sardar Patel at 10 am and thereafter at 11 am would participate at main speaker in the symposium organized at party’s state headquarter Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Campus.
The BJP State president informed that party’s national vice president Purshottam Bhai Rupala would address the symposium on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at Jabalpur.