CM Sai joins Har Ghar Tiranga, earns campaign certificate
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The tricolour flew a little higher in Chhattisgarh on Friday, 14 August 2026, as Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai publicly joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Har Ghar Tiranga campaign — and received a participation certificate for doing so.
Posting on the eve of Independence Day, Sai urged citizens across the country to upload their tricolour selfies at harghartiranga.com and become part of what he called a celebration of national unity and pride, tagging the campaign's official hashtag #HarGharTiranga and the Prime Minister's handle.
A campaign that began with Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav
Har Ghar Tiranga was first launched in 2022 as a centrepiece of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the nationwide celebration marking 75 years of Indian independence. What started as a one-time push to bring the national flag into every household has since become an annual ritual — a mass-participation moment timed to 15 August each year, drawing in state governments, public figures, and ordinary citizens alike.
The campaign's digital hook — a selfie portal where participants upload photographs with the tricolour and receive a personalised certificate — has been central to its reach. Sai's post, complete with a certificate, follows that same playbook and signals Chhattisgarh's active alignment with the Centre's patriotic outreach for this edition.
Chief ministers as campaign amplifiers
State chief ministers have consistently served as force-multipliers for Har Ghar Tiranga, their public participation lending institutional weight to what is otherwise a citizen-driven exercise. Sai's post — timed to the eve of Independence Day and directed explicitly at his followers — is a textbook example of that pattern: a senior BJP leader visibly carrying the Prime Minister's call to action into his own political constituency.
With Independence Day 2026 hours away, the question is how many citizens in Chhattisgarh — and across India — answer that call by uploading their own selfies before the flag is hoisted tomorrow morning.