Jallandhar : The Tricolour will be hoisted at Lal Chowk in Srinagar at any cost on Republic Day. BJYM president and BJP MP Anurag Thakur stated this while addressing a public rally at Patel Chowk here on Sunday. Thakur said efforts were being made to stop him from hoisting the flag at Lal Chowk. If he was not allowed to unfurl the National Flag at Lal Chowk, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would have no moral right to hoist it at the Lal Qila, he added. Expressing surprise, he said he failed to understand why an Indian had been stopped to hoist the flag in his country. While Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had seemingly bowed before separatists as he was issuing statements against his plan of hoisting the flag at Lal Chowk, Dr Manmohan Singh had also apparently bowed before Omar on this issue, he added. Later talking to mediapersons, he said the main motive of the yatra was to create awareness among the countrymen about the Kashmir problem. Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs were being made victims by the militants, he added. Addressing the rally, Punjab Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia said Thakur’s yatra reminded him of a similar yatra carried out by the then BJP president, Murli Manohar Joshi, and a rath yatra by the then BJP chief, LK Advani, several years ago.
No comments:
Post a Comment