It is Mumbai to Jammu for Sunil Rane, founder of a city-based non-profit organisation named Atharva Foundation, this Independence Day. Rane will be in Jammu to participate in the flag-hoisting ceremony at the Samba border with special military permission. Rane, who is also general secretary at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Mumbai, is joined by his cousin Deepak Rane and a member of Atharva Foundation, professor Balaji Shinde.

"I think we are the only three Mumbaikars travelling to J&K in these tumultuous though triumphant times," said Rane on Tuesday evening, hours before the trio's Wednesday morning flight to Jammu. Rane said, "We will first go to the Jammu and Kashmir Sainik Welfare Board in Samba. We are also scheduled to travel to Nowshera, Udhampur, Shopian, Kulgam and Pulwama. We will be criss-crossing the Union Territory."