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UFICA celebrated India's 68th Independence Day

Every year, India's Independence Day is celebrated by all proud Indians in India and NRIs worldwide. The day is observed as a national holiday in India  for the country. Though, local governments conduct the ceremony of flag hoisting all over India, the venue of main celebration is the Red Fort in the capital city New Delhi in India.

The republic of India gained its independence from the rule of the British on 15 August 1947. Since then, this date of 15 August is celebrated as the Independence Day in India to commemorate its freedom from the 200-year-old British government. In 1757, after the British victory in the Battle of Plassey, the rule of East India Company started in India. In 1858,  the British Crown had assumed control over India.

Just before the World War I, many movements and acts were carried out by  NRIs from California and Vancouver,  the Indian National Congress, freedom fighters and the people of India . This led to revolutionary calls for independence, and sparked the phase of non-violent and non-cooperation movements followed by civil disobedience until  August  15, 1947. In the month of June in 1947, the prominent Indian leaders like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Abul Kalam Azad, Master Tara Singh and B. R. Ambedkar agreed for a partition of India along religious outline. The Sikh and Hindu areas were marked as India, while Muslim area as Pakistan. This  approaching independence could not decrease the Hindu-Muslim violence in Bengal and Punjab.  This Hindu-Muslim violence took away around 250,000 to 500,000 lives.  Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed India's independence by reading out his famous speech known as "Tryst with destiny" on Aug 15, 1947……Gary Singh

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UNITED FEDERATION OF INDO AMERICANS OF CALIFORNIA (UFICA)
celebrated India's 68th Independence Day at Sanatan Dharma Temple

Artesia, California, Aug. 30, 2014
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UFICA (UNITED FEDERATION OF INDO AMERICANS OF CALIFORNIA celebrated India's 68th Independence Day at Sanatan Dharma Temple, 15311 Pioneer Blvd, Norwalk, CA, on August 23. " Everyone enjoyed Preetisha and Sameer's live music performance, " said Ajit Dudheker, prersident of UFICA and most popular broker in Artesia. "approx 800 people attended the celebration."

"In the past when we founded  UFICA, we had no money that time," said Ashok Patnaik, a Secretary  of UFICA. "AJ Dudheker  was the only person who wrote  a big check to make our event successful."

Clips of Mr. Modi's 15th of August address was shown to the audience on a screen. A message from Modi ji to NRIs was also read  by Harish Dhruv who is founder of UFICA.

"NRIs are here to celebrate this event from different part of California, said  Dr. Rangesh Gadasalli, founder and  ex-chairman of UFICA

.The program lasted for 5 hours and every one enjoyed the function.

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