Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that from next year on Bhopal Gaurav Diwas, June 1 will be a holiday in Bhopal. A research institute focused on the history of Bhopal will be established with the aim of making the coming generation familiar with the history of Bhopal. On Bhopal Gaurav Diwas, CM Chouhan reached Bhopal Gate and felicitated the Safai Mitras. While extending greetings of Bhopal Merger Day, he said that as a result of the sacrifices of innumerable people and the struggle of warriors on June 1, 1949, two years after the country’s independence, Bhopal became an integral part of India. Chouhan unfurled the national flag amid shower of gulal, flowers and fireworks. He paid floral tributes to Bharat Mata after recitation of national anthem and remembered the martyrs of merger by lighting a mashal (torch). Tribute was also paid by offering flowers on the portraits of the martyrs. He also visited the picture exhibition focused on the Bhopal merger movement.