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BJP seeks President's intervention on flag-hoisting issue

1/25/2011 1:21:17 AM

New Delhi: With its senior leaders denied entry into Kashmir Valley for the flag hoisting programme in Srinagar on the Republic day, BJP has sought President Pratibha Patil's intervention in the matter. "We have urged the President to intervene in the matter as two of our senior leaders are being stopped at Jammu," senior leader Rajnath Singh said after his phone call to the President. "I requested her (Patil) to tell the Centre to permit the youth wing to hoist the tricolour", he added. BJP moved the President after its senior leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj were stopped at the Jammu airport. They were sent by the BJP high command earlier in the day to "take command" of the BJP...

Peace march ahead of rally

1/25/2011 1:20:48 AM

The BJP will stage a peace march in Jammu tomorrow, a day ahead of its plans to hoist the national flag at Srinagar''s Lal Chowk on the Republic Day, the party''s youth wing leader Poonam Mahajan announced today. "We have been declared out of bounds from the Parade Ground at Jammu. We are organising a peace march outside the ground tomorrow," the BJYM vice president, also the daughter of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, told PTI over phone from Jammu. "We cannot stay in hotels. We are staying at houses (of well-wishers)," Poonam said. "I came to Jammu by flight," she said, adding, she would have been detained had she used road or rail route. She claimed that the government in Jammu and Ka...

Defy restrictions: Manhas to people

1/25/2011 1:20:36 AM

BJP State President Shamsher Singh Manhas has reacted sharply to the development of today where in two senior leaders Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta and Ashok Khajuria alongwith several other BJYM leaders and activists were placed under arrest and three prominent leaders from Delhi Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Anant Kumar were not permitted to come out of the airport and has appealed to the citizens of Jammu and all the nationalist minded people of the region to come forward large number to attend the BJYM Rashtriya Ekta Yatra proposed rally at 10:00 at Parade Ground Jammu. Manhas has urged upon people to defy restriction by administration and peacefully come along with their family members...

Scores of BJP activists sneak into Srinagar

Police launch massive manhunt

1/25/2011 1:20:04 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 24: Notwithstanding massive security arrangements to keep the BJP and its Yuva Morcha activists away from Srinagar's city centre, Lal Chowk, a local news agency believes scores of activists have managed to sneak into the summer capital on January 21 and 22. The agency quoting police sources said the activists went into hiding immediately after their arrival in Srinagar. The police, sources said, have launched a massive manhunt to nab the activists, who will try to reach Lal Chowk on January 26. The police have sought help from state's intelligence sleuths to ascertain the whereabouts of the hiding BJP/Yuva Morcha activists. The police raided several placer...

No traffic from Jammu to Srinagar today

1/25/2011 1:19:32 AM

Early Times Report srinagar, Jan 24: In view of the BJP'S 'Ekta Yatra', there would be no vehicular traffic from Jammu to Srinagar Tuesday. The BJP's Ekta Yatra is scheduled to leave Jammu for Srinagar tomorrow to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk on Republic Day. A number of BJP activists have already arrived in Srinagar and were staying in some areas which are considered safe. Only one-way traffic was being allowed by the authorities on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway since the first week of January to avoid any accident due to slippery road conditions caused by snow. Under this order, vehicles were being allowed to ply from Jammu and Srinagar every alternate day. However,...

You can't hoist national flag at Lal Chowk, What an irony!

1/25/2011 1:19:11 AM

NEHA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Jan 24: The NC-Congress coalition government has declared that it would not allow the BJP to hoist the national Flag at the Srinagar's Lal Chowk on the Republic Day. It has said that the BJP's whole programme is politically motivated and ill-designed and it has the potential of vitiating the peaceful atmosphere in Kashmir. It has started arresting the BJP leaders and workers and sealed all the roads leading to Srinagar. It has converted the summer capital into a fortress. It has also sealed the borders and deployed security forces and the State Police at Lakhanpur, the gateway of Jammu and Kashmir, on an unprecedented scale to thwart the possibility of the B...

Question to BJP: Who provided Z-plus plus to leaders of Azadi?

1/25/2011 1:17:41 AM

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Jan 24: Even as Jammu & Kashmir's most protected separatist leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, is now far away in London to participate in a conference, his Police and CRPF-protected colleagues, including Bilal Gani Lone and Aga Syed Hassan, have gone into hiding two days ahead of Republic Day ceremonies. Like now underground JKLF Chairman, Yasin Malik, they are believed to be planning hoisting of the flag of Kashmir's separation from India at Lalchowk on Wednesday. And the big question now: Who in India made the separatists as heroes and provided them bullet-proof cars and vests, Police and CRPF escorts, Personal Security Officers (PSOs), static h...

Ultras wait for opportune moments to intrude: BSF

1/25/2011 1:17:28 AM

Early Times Report srinagar, Jan 24: The Kashmir Frontier BSF IG Baljit Singh today said the PoK-based militants were in wait for opportune moments to cross over to this side of the border but the troops were alert enough to foil their any infiltration bid. He said though they had made several attempts to infiltrate, they had been unsuccessful so far.As the troops were on alert on the border, they had not been able to do anything this year, the IGP claimed. "Militants have been trying and will be trying to infiltrate as they continuously change their infiltration points depending on the climate in the area and the strength of troops in the regio,", he said. However, there was no exact ...

PCC leader's son among 3 killed, 20 hurt in road mishaps

1/25/2011 1:17:15 AM

Early Times Report Jammu/kishtwar, Jan 24: A PCC leader's son and two others were today killed and 20 others, including a police Inspector, an Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer and a Delhi police cop, wounded in separate road mishaps in the region today. PCC secretary Mohammad Sultan of Shaheedganj, son Jamshed Sultan and a PSO were on their way from Jammu to Srinagar when their Maruti Gypsy (JK02V/8596) collided head-on with a Maruti Esteem (DL3CAF/5515) near Toatri Nullah in Udhampur. In the collision, while Jamshed died on the spot, Mohammad Sultan, his PSO and eight car occupants sustained critical injuries, police sources said. The car was carrying hawala operators -- Ghulam M...

Alert over Lashkar strike threat on R-Day

1/25/2011 1:17:00 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 24: A high alert was sounded across the state Monday following a possible terror strike ahead of the Republic Day and to ensure calm in view of the BJP's proposed march to the valley to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. Both the state government and the separatists have vowed to oppose the BJP plan. Intelligence sources said there were reports of a major terrorist strike being planned by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the run-up to the 62nd Republic Day. The state government and the union home ministry had started exchanging notes on security issues on an hourly-basis, the sources added. Sources said the LeT was preparing to strike, using car bom...

Victimised CRPF may refuse to assist civil administration in Kashmir

1/25/2011 1:16:47 AM

RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Jan 24: It needs to be underlined that ever since their deployment in the terrorist and separatist-infested Kashmir, the security forces, particularly the CRPF personnel, have been at the receiving end. And, all this, notwithstanding the fact that the CRPF has been assisting the civil administration in Kashmir as per the decisions taken at the highest level. It would not be out of place to mention here that it is basically the Chief Minister, who also holds the Home portfolio and chairs meetings of the Unified Command to review the security scenario and take decisions to deploy or re-deploy the security forces in the affected areas or to withdraw securi...

Brief firing in Sopore; militants escape

1/25/2011 1:15:54 AM

SRINAGAR: Panic gripped Sopore township of north Kashmir following a brief exchange of fire between two militants and police this evening, officials said. The shootout took place as two militants passing through Chanikhan area of the town, 55 kms from here, came across a police patrol, the officials said. They said the militants started firing indiscriminately, which was retaliated by the cops but none was hurt in the incident. While the militants managed to escape from the scene, security forces have cordoned off the area and launched a manhunt for them, the officials said....

Jail warden suspended

1/25/2011 1:15:22 AM

Jammu: A Kot-Bhalwal jail warden was today placed under suspension for alleged dereliction of duty. Jail sources said warden Nirmal Bala was suspended by jail head on the allegations of dereliction of duty. Another source said she was suspended after she refused to dance to the jail head's tunes. The sources said earlier cook Kiran had got herself transferred to the district jail as she did not want to do household works of seniors....