Telangana Stops For A Minute To Sing National Anthem

As part of its Swathantra Bharatha Vajrotsavalu, the Telangana government on Tuesday organised a mass singing of the national anthem across the State.

As soon as the clock struck 11:30 am, the traffic lights at all junctions turned red for a minute as people joined the mass recital of the national anthem.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao led the State by joining the mass recital at the statue of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the busy Abids centre in the State capital along with ministers Mahmood Ali, Srinivas Goud, Prashanth Reddy and Talasani Srinivas Yadav, MPs K Keshava Rao and Asaduddin Owaisi, legislators, other public representatives, political leaders, officials and others.

In several main thoroughfares in the capital, students participated in the collective singing of the national anthem along with ministers and public representatives at the dot of 11:30 am. Even the Metro trains stopped at the appointed time. All public and private buses, and all types of motor vehicles on most roads too came to a standstill for a minute, and the travelling public joined in the chorus of the anthem. People in markets, offices, educational institutions, malls and other public places, and across villages and towns too, participated in the program. Patriotic fervor gripped the entire State, and the venues reverberated with the slogan "Bolo Swathanthra Bharath Ki Jai".