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Friday, 29 March 2024 10.24 AM IST

On the day India got independence, it was not allowed to hoist tricolor only in Thiruvananthapuram, this is the reason

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state capital is celebrating India's 75th Independence Day. The national flag is seen everywhere and Independence day celebrations were also organized. But 75 years ago, on the day when the country got independence, the situation in Thiruvananthapuram was different.

As per the orders of Travancore Diwan Sir C P Ramaswami Iyer, the Secretariat was closed. In the capital, the tricolour was hoisted in YMCA under the leadership of Pattom Thanu Pillai.

While the Independence Day celebrations were held at the Central Stadium today, nearby a stone monument erected in YMCA premises to commemorate that day is still there. A group of Congress workers under the leadership of Travancore State Congress President Pattom Thanu Pillai celebrated independence by hoisting the national flag at YMCA on 15th August 1947 at 7.30 am. The YMCA annual report states that Pillai also delivered a speech after the hoisting of the flag.

The activists led by Pattom Thanu Pillai decided to hoist the flag inside the Secretariat. But they were not allowed to enter inside, so instead they hoisted the flag at YMCA.

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Three days before independence, C P announced that the Indian flag should not be hoisted anywhere in Travancore. The order was that only the flag with the conch shell seal of Travancore should be hoisted. After the attack on July 25, C P was on rest at Shaktivilasom Palace. He left Travancore on 19th August. In those days when there were no means of communication, historians remember people gathering around a radio in Sreekanteswaram Park on the eve of Independence Day. The Congress workers celebrated by bursting firecrackers and conducted rally. But majority did not know about getting freedom.

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​​​The National Flag was hoisted for the first time at the Central Stadium behind the Secretariat on the first anniversary of Independence in 1948. Thiru-Kochi Prime Minister Pattom Thanu Pillai hoisted the flag. There was a route march of the army. The procession by Prime Minister and ministers in an open jeep through Kanakakkunnu concluded in Pangodu. The royal family members from the Kowdiyar Palace sat in front of the Kanakakkunnu palace and received the greeting.

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