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| Theatre of the absurd | | And now police arrest people for carrying Tricolor | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 25: For sixty-four years, the Jammu Kashmir Police had been seizing Pakistani flags in Kashmir. People carrying the flags would be ruthlessly beaten before detaining them earlier under Defense of India Rules (DIR) and later under Public Safety Act (PSA). But things have changed in Kashmir and so has the thinking of the police. The police are now after persons carrying the Indian National Flag.
The summer capital witnessed unprecedented security arrangements a day before the Republic Day. Besides looking for seven Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militants, who the intelligence sleuths believe, have sneaked into the city to "create trouble on Republic day", and the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) activists who have dared the Bharataya Janata Party (BJP) and its Yuva Morcha to hoist the Tricolor on the Clock Tower at Lal Chowk; the police were also looking for a third actor. The search was repeatedly undertaken in Lal Chowk and elsewhere in the city for BJP activists and the Indian National Flag!
The people who made it to Lal Chowk today for various reasons were thoroughly frisked. The checking of vehicles this time was also thorough. The IGP, Kashmir range visited the Lal Chowk area three times to assess the situation. However, much to his dismay, not a single BJP activist could be arrested and not a single Tricolor was recovered.
The desperation of the police and the state government to ensure that the Indian National Flag is not hoisted at the Clock Tower speaks volumes about the situation in Kashmir which politicians, defense analysts and intelligence sleuths believe has improved.
Jammu Kashmir was ruled by a retired Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief in 1992 when the former BJP president, Murli Manohar Joshi led a similar yatra to Srinagar. Militancy was at its peak then and the ruler being an intelligence sleuth was better placed to understand the security situation than the present day rulers. He did not stop the yatra. This means the government was less scared of militant Kashmir! Is it safe to presume that the situation in contemporary Kashmir is much dangerous than it was in 1992?
Notwithstanding the compulsions of the rulers to stop the yatra this time, the government has now a strong argument to use at International level. If people have been arrested for hoisting the Pakistani flag in Kashmir, they have also been arrested for carrying the Indian National Flag! Isn't it vindication of the separatist stand who believe Jammu Kashmir is a dispute? |
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