Month: December 1929
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Nehru’s Presidential Address at the Lahore Congress, 1929
Comrades, For four and forty years, this National Congress has laboured for the freedom of India. During this period, it has somewhat slowly, but surely, awakened national consciousness from its long stupor and built up the national movement. If, today we are gathered here at a crisis of our destiny, conscious of our strength as…
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Nehru unfurls National Flag at the Lahore Congress, 1929
Jawaharlal Nehru was the President of the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress, 1929. After hoisting the National Flag Nehru addressed the participants on 29 December 1929 in Lahore: I have just unfurled the national flag of Hindustan. What is the meaning of this flag? It is one of the symbols of India’s freedom.…