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Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 29: Today Congress leader Rahul Gandhi created history by unfurling the national flag at Srinagar’s historic Lal Chowk.
After the first Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Rahul Gandhi became the second Congress leader to unfurl the national flag at Lal Chowk.
Notable despite joining the Yatra with full force, leaders of the National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were conspicuously absent when Rahul Gandhi was unfurling the national flag at Lal Chowk.
Within minutes after the unfurling of the national flag at historic Lal Chowk, the Jammu and Kashmir Congress from its official Twitter handle shared two pictures. In one picture first Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru was unfurling the national flag at the historic Lal Chowk of Srinagar and in the second picture Rahul Gandhi was unfurling the Tricolour at the same venue. "History is repeating itself", Congress tweeted in Hindi.
It was in 1948 first Prime Minister of the country Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru had unfurled the national flag in Lal Chowk.
Changing the itinerary of the Bharat Jodo Yatra at the eleventh hour, Congress leaders unfurled the national flag at the Lal Chowk. Earlier Congress said that unfurling the Tricolour at Lal Chowk is “the RSS agenda”.
Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders unfurled the national flag amid unprecedented security at the historic clock tower of Lal Chowk here as part of the “Bharat Jodo Yatra”. Taking a 30-minute break from the Kanyakumari to Kashmir foot march at Sonawar, Rahul Gandhi drove to the Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters on Maulana Azad Road before heading to the clock tower, locally known as ‘Ghanta Ghar’, to unfurl the tricolour.
There were unprecedented security measures when Congress leaders were hoisting the national flag at Lal Chowk. All roads leading to Lal Chowk had been sealed off from Saturday night and no vehicular movement was allowed.
Shops, business establishments, and the weekly flea market were closed as part of the security drill for the flag unfurling by the former Congress president.
After unfurling the Tricolour at Srinagar's Lal Chowk, Rahul Gandhi said Sunday that a promise made to India was fulfilled today. In a tweet in Hindi, Gandhi said, “Hate will lose, love will always win There will be a new dawn of hopes in India”.
After unfurling the national flag, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that permission to unfurl the tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Sunday was given by the J&K administration.
Congress had earlier planned to hoist the national flag at the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) office on Monday to mark the conclusion of the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra in Union Territory. |
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