The nationwide programme ‘Meri Mati Mera Desh’ campaign was launched on Friday in all the 100 wards of the city areas. Under the leadership of Kashi Region president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Dilip Singh Patel, along with city chief Vidya Sagar Rai, a group of BJP workers collected sacred soil in Amrit Kalash from the houses in Shivpurwa Ward located in Sigra area. The party workers were waving tri-colour and shouting slogans of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Mataram’. Patel said with the inspiration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, every village of the country will come together to pay humble tribute to all the brave sons of Bharat Mata who sacrificed everything in the freedom struggle and later on Amrit Vatika will be built in Delhi in their memory with the sacred soil collected from every ward of the cities and villages. He said under this programme, through mass participation we will make India a developed country, eliminate mentality of slavery so that we can feel proud of our rich heritage, maintain unity and solidarity and fulfil our duties as citizens. He appealed to all to take the ‘Panch Pran’ pledge focusing on fulfilling the duty and honouring those who protect the nation. The regional BJP president said that the ‘Meri Mati, Mera Desh’ campaign was announced by the PM in the 103rd episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ broadcast on July 30 last. The aim of this campaign is to honour the brave freedom fighters and heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country. Under this campaign programmes will be organised across the country in the memory of brave fighters. Also, an Amrit Vatiya will be built in the memory of the brave fighters in every gram panchayat, which has been named ‘Shilafalakam’ on which the names of all the fighters of that area will be recorded. The city chief said the PM has announced the campaign in honour of brave sons of the country under which on Friday a group of party workers collected soil from every house in Shivpurwa ward. He said this ‘Amrit Kalash Yatra’ will reach the country’s capital (Delhi) carrying soil in 7,500 urns from every corner of the country. This Yatra will also take with it saplings from different parts of the country to Delhi. By mixing the soil and plants in these 7,500 urns, ‘Amrit Vatika’ will be created near the National War Memorial. This ‘Amrit Vatika’ will become a grand symbol of ‘Ek Bharat-Shreshtha Bharat’. Ashok Rai, Rajesh Trivedi, Shalini Yadav, Navratan Rathi, Madhup Singh, Namrata Chaurasia, Shobhanath Maurya, Kusum Patel, Shailendra Mishra, Abhishek Verma, Pankaj Patel, Indra Rani, Ajay Bind, Sindhu Sonkar, Rahul Kanojia, Pooja Pandey, Pragya Pandey, Hilmil Rai, Ved Mishra, Kushagra Srivastava, Hrithik Mishra and many others were also present.