New Zealand Telugu Association (NZTA) has participated in the 60th Diamond Jubilee Celebration of Indian Independence organized by Bharatiya Samaj Charitable Trust in ASB Theatre, Aotea Square on 12th of August 2007. The Celebrations started with a parade for the first time in Auckland on queen street. Jeet Suchdev, President of Bharatiya Samaj has taken all the initiating steps to make the parade happen successfully.

The parade was lead by Indian RSA  followed by a big float on which 7 live characters of Indian freedom fighters were waiving the Indian flags to the public attended the parade. More than 40 different associations participated the parade.

Out of seven live characters on the float New Zealand Telugu Association (NZTA) had four characters adding the glory to the parade. NZTA  President Sitaram Salvaji says children who dressed up like Indian freedom fighters enjoyed the parade and had a very good response from the public taking photographs with the characters. He said that Prime Minister Helen Clark, Cabinet ministers and Sir Edmund Hillary appreciated the characters and encouraged them to more to be done in the future

              Bharat Mata (Meghana Bommena, 11 years, Mt. Roskill Intermediate School, Mt. Roskill) that is, the Mother India or Bharathamba (Bharat - India, Mata - Mother) is a personification of India as a mother goddess. She is usually depicted as a woman clad in an orange/saffron saree holding Indian flag.

                  Bhagat Singh (Abhinay Salvaji, 9 years, St. Leonard’s Road Primary School, Kelston) who fought for the Indian independence and who stated that “It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas” , before he was hanged till death by the Britishers at the age of 23. He wanted to die so that his death would inspire the youth of India to unite and fight the British Empire.

               Alluri Sita Rama Raju (Navaneeth Alle, 8 years, Edendale Primary School, Sandringham)  was an Indian freedom fighter. A terror to the alien rulers, Alluri Seetha Rama Raju was one of Andhra's early revolutionaries. He successfully led the tribals revolting against the Crown. Mobilising them, he launched an armed rebellion against the British. He lives on in the hearts of the Telugu people as the Manyam Veerudu ('Hero of the jungles'). Sita Rama Raju surrendered himself, and was shot dead without a trial by british officer Rutherford at the age of 27.

                Gandhi (Aakaash Salvaji, 7 years, St. Leonard’s Road Primary School, Kelston) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha — the resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence — which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. In India, he is recognized as the Father of the Nation and October 2nd, his birthday, is commemorated each year as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday. On 15 June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring October 2 to be the "International Day of Non-Violence."