This year’s Independence Day being the 70{+t}{+h}seems to have prompted people, mostly youth to celebrate it on a bigger scale. Apart from the celebrations organised at schools, colleges, organisations, at offices of political parties, groups of youth were seen riding along the beach road in spite of a sharp shower, holding the national flag.
One group has carried a tricolour of about 20 feet long. Even in the evening there were motorcycle borne youths making rounds with the national flag.
First time at VIMS
At Andhra Medical College, Principal S.V. Kumar unfurled the national flag and at King George Hospital, Superintendent M. Madhuhdhana Babu hoisted the flag. Dr. Kumar and HoD of Microbiology P. Balamurali Krishna received merit certificates from the District Adminstration. It was the first Independence Day at the Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) after it was inaugurated in April. Its Officer on Special Duty P.V. Sudhakar unfurled the national flag.
Superintendent of Police Rahul Dev Sharma unfurled the flag at the District Police Office.
As many as 50 uniformed and civilian officers and staff received merit certificates of the District Administration from Finance Minister Y. Ramakrishnudu at the function organised at the Police Stadium.
At Pinnacle Hospitals, its managing director K.V. Prasad was the chief guest and unfurled the national flag.
APCC general secretary Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao hoisted the tricolour at a function organised by the Congress party office by the Congress Seva Dal. City Congress president Behara Bhaskara Rao presided.
State general secretary of the YSR Congress and former MLA G. Babu Rao unfurled the flag at the party office. District president G. Amarnath presided.
At the CPI office, party’s State assistant secretary J.V. Satyanarayana Murthy unfurled the flag and said the downtrodden sections have not tasted the fruits of independence even after 70 years.
Philathropist Mattapalli Chalamayya and educationist P. Raja Ganapathi were among the guests at the celebrations organised by the GVP MLBT School.
