BJP kept its promise of hoisting flag in Srinagar on January 26:BJP

Jammu, January 27 (Scoop News) – BJP kept its promise of hoisting the flag in Srinagar despite its hundreds of activists and leaders were taken into custody. Despite strict police bandobast, BJP leaders hoisted tricolor in Srinagar on January 26 in keeping with its objective for flag hoisting in the summer capital of J&K.

In a statement said that  Four BJP senior leaders—Deputy Leader of Legislator party Jugal Kishore Sharma, MLAs Shyam Choudhary and Prof. Gharu Ram and BJYM National Vice-president Pawan Khajuria—had flown to Srinagar from New Delhi on January 25. However, they were detained by the security personnel at the Airport, where the BJP leaders also held dharna and raised slogans against the government for its highhandedness. The authorities whisked the leaders to some unknown destination and kept them lodged in some safe house with heavy security cover.

According to statement the leaders however managed to get a flag and hoisted it on a building in Srinagar near Lal Chowk. They also managed to perform all the formalities connected with the flag hoisting. The authorities later shifted them to another place and finally took them to airport on January 27, where from they flew to Jammu—the winter capital of the state. 

Meanwhile BJP State President Sh. Shamsher Singh Manhas alongwith other leaders hoisted the tri-colour at party headquarters on the occasion of 62nd Republic Day,

The party activists also distributed sweets on the occasion.

Manhas said that right from the Independence of the country, we have been working towards strengthening the national forces in the state and also for abolition of separate constitution and separate flag which has induced a sense of separatism among the people here. He said today’s flag hoisting has more significance as our Rashtriya Ekta Yatra has successfully culminated with the BJYM activists reaching Sriangar with tri-colour despite heavy odds. He said that the party will continue to work for the full integration of the state with the rest of the country and to ensure that the dream of our great leaders like Dr. shyama Prasad Mookherjee comes to be true.

Vani Tripathi, Mohinder Panday, Om Prakash Kohli, Som Raj Khajuria, Bali Bhagat, Suresh Jamwal, Satish Sharma, Sat Sharma (C.A), Kavinder Gupta, Harinder Gupta,  Dr. Jitendra Singh, Amarnath Gupta, Yudhvir Sethi, Sunil Sharma, Ramesh Arora, Surinder Sharma, Dr. Nirmal Kamal, Nitin Naveen,  Munish Sharma, Sakina Bano, Shiv Kumar Gupta, Rajesh Gupta, Poonam Mahajan,  Bansi Lal Bharti, Ashwani Bali, Jaideep Sharma, Sanjay Baru, Parimoksh Seth, Adarsh Bhagat, Narotam Sharma, Surinder Choudhary, Vikram Randhawa, Vinay Gupta, Munish Khajuria, Subash Jandial, Ashok Gandhi, and hundreds of other party activists were present on the occasion.   

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