Overview
- Education minister Ashish Sood inaugurated the Festival of Unity on October 25 at Sonia Vihar Yamuna ghat under the Sardar @150 initiative.
- About 150 volunteers from Delhi government schools collected Yamuna water designated as “ekta ka jal.”
- The campaign plans a symbolic outreach from Kashmir to Kanyakumari by sending the collected water to 25 rivers across India.
- Participants performed a Maa Yamuna aarti and took pledges for river conservation and national unity.
- Sood praised Sardar Patel’s integration of 562 princely states and referenced the abrogation of Article 370 to frame the campaign’s message.