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| Govt starts 'checking' entry of BJYM activists...... BJP refuses to budge | | 'Kashmir not the property of Nehrus & Abdullahs' | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Jan 22: In what appears to be NC led coalition government and BJP heading for a showdown on BJYM's Ekta Yatra, the former has begun tight vigil in Jammu days ahead of the Yatra is scheduled to reach here. A high spirited BJP including national and local leaders, on the other hand are determined to go ahead with Lal Chowk flag hoisting flag. Having increased its vigil on the railway station on the instructions of government, scores of BJYM activists from various parts of the country were allegedly 'stopped' from entering the city and later 'dispatched' to Katra for darshans at Holy Shrine. The Yatra will now arrive in Jammu on January 24.
Sources said around 155 activists who arrived here this morning were stopped allegedly by the police even though they did not identify themselves as associated with the Etka Yatra. Most of them were youth who for fear of facing any trouble or apprehension of being detained, they identified themselves as pilgrims intending to visit Katra for darshans in the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine. Sources said the entire group was made to sit in a bus and straightway sent to Katra. Party sources confirming arrival of some youth from outside the state said they will spend some time in Katra .
The increased vigil at the railway station, sources said is only adding to the harassment of general pilgrims who are being put to unnecessary questioning to check their identification. Almost throughout the day, apparently in a bid to identify the workers and activists of the BJYM and with a motive to check their entry in the city, the pilgrims were 'screened' thoroughly.
Not worried about the increased checking and vigil of the police at various places, the BJP and BJYM leaders continue to make their statements loaded with determination for moving ahead.
The party today reiterated plans to hoist the tricolour at Srinagar's Lal Chowk Jan 26, saying it has the right to unfurl the national flag anywhere in the country.
Party MP Anurag Thakur even asked Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to join in unfurling the flag in Lal Chowk even as Jammu and Kashmir began sealing its borders with Punjab as a preventive measure.
'We are living in a free nation and we have the right to hoist our national flag anywhere in the country. So what is the problem in hoisting the tri-colour at Srinagar's Lal Chowk in Kashmir Valley?' said Thakur here.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari has also has justified the plans and even appealed to Jammu and Kashmir's ruling National Conference and ally Congress party to join his party and make flag-hoisting in Lal Chowk an all-party event.
'We don't find anything wrong in hoisting the national flag in our own country,' Gadkari told Indian journalists in China.
Striking the same note, Thakur told reporters here: 'Despite all opposition, we invite Omar Abdullah to accompany us to Lal Chowk. This is a good opportunity for Abdullah to prove his loyalty towards the country.'
The march is to culminate Jan 26 with the BJP's planned national flag hoisting at Srinagar's Lal Chowk, though the state government has said this will not be allowed.
'There are only a handful of weak people who are against this initiative. We should not let separatists dictate things to us. We have to ignore them. We are committed to pursuing our campaign peacefully and do not pose any threat to the law and order situation in the state, he said.
Meanwhile, the J&K leadership of Bharatiya Janta Party, coming down heavily on the allies of coalition government in the state today said thatJammu and Kashmir is not an individual property of two families of Nehrus and Abdullahs. They said the wrong policies of Congress and NC over the decades have eaten into the vitals of the state leading it towards separatism
Addressing a joint press conference here today, BJP president Shamsher Singh Manhas alongwith National Executive Members Dr. Nirmal Singh and Ashok Khajuria said that both the families have wrecked havoc in the state which has given rise to militancy, bloodshed and separatism only.
Making it loud and clear, the leaders said upcoming Ekta Sankalp Yatra, paying homages to martyrs like Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookherjee, Brig. Rajinder Singh and Maqbool Sherwani and to hoist tricolor in valley is determination of the party. They said that any attempt to stop or resisit the yatra by the state government would by strongly thwarted and state BJP would see that tricolour unfurls at Lal Chowk amidst chanting of "Bharat Mata Ki Jai'.
"More than 50,000 youth of the country are reaching of Jammu on January 25 who would proceed to Kashmir to hoist the tricolor in the valley and no force on earth can stop us from doing so," said Shamsher Singh Manhas.
He said that since NC and PDP's respective agendas of autonomy and self rule is getting defeated, both have embarked upon mudslinging in the name of tricolor hoisting in the state which represents their anti-national mindset. |
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