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| ‘Give Lal Chowk's tower a watch’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 19: The clock tower at Lal Chowk in the summer capital lost its importance last year. The tower was a hot spot for the separatists and main-stream politicians in 2010. Both wanted to conquer it to prove their strength (if not worth).
The government seemed desperate to keep the clock tower `out of bounds' especially for the separatists, the curbs imposed to ensure its `protection' every now and then subjected the commoner to inconvenience.
Pertinent to mention, the clock tower has no historical importance. It came up in early 80s and became politically important in 1992 when the then BJP president, Murli Manohar Joshi hoisted the tricolor on the tower. He started his yatra from a distant state in India and ended it at Lal Chowk.
Joshi had to hoist the Tricolor in haste as a rocket fired by militants barely missed the tower. Immediately after Mirwaiz Umer Farooq's march o Lal Chowk in 2010, the authorities used tons of steel to make the tower durable.
However, the authorities forgot to give the tower a watch , thus reducing it to an ordinary tower in the middle of a busy city centre. Since 2008, the separatists tried several times to `conquer' the tower. Every time the authorities clamped curfew to foil their move. The authorities even used barbed wire to keep the agitated youth away from the tower. |
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