J&K mulls plan to counter rallies
With the BJP adamant to hoist the tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Republic Day and the separatists readying to impede what is seen by them is a deliberate attempt to taunt the people of Kashmir, the state government has geared up its law and order machinery as well as the local administration to meet the eventuality.
As was stated by chief minister Omar Abdullah after meeting Union home minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi on Wednesday, the government has yet to devise a strategy to meet the challenging situation. But official sources in Jammu said that the issue has already being discussed threadbare at various levels in the government and was one of the main points deliberated upon at the recent meeting of the Unified Command of different security forces, including the Army headed by the chief minister.
The sources said that the state government is mulling stopping the Rashtriya Ekta Yatra which started from Kolkata last week and is expected to reach Srinagar on January 26, where Sang Parivar activists led by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha president Anurag Thakur want to hoist the tricolor, at Lakhanpur on the Jammu and Kashmir-Punjab border. Mr Thakur and other activists may then be flown to Srinagar for the flag hoisting. But a section of security officials is apprehensive of the probability of this setting off protests in the Valley, the situation which could be seized by the separatists to precipitate the trouble.
***
BJYM seeks permission to hoist flag
AGE CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR
Jan. 19: The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) has formally sought permission from the police to hoist the national flag at Srinagar’s historic Lal Chowk on January 26.
Senior Morcha leaders, Nitin Navin, Mahendra Panday and Chandra Prakash, and local activist Ashique Hussein Dar and BJP’s state vice-president Muhammad Yusuf Sofi met inspector-general of police (Kashmir range) Shiv Mohan Sahai on Wednesday to move an application, but were adviced to approach the district authorities as the police is not authorised to give such permission on its own.
Post new comment