Jammu, January 22 (Scoop News) – Bharatiya Janta Party has said that Jammu and Kashmir is not an individual property of two families of Nehrus and Abdullahs that has 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.
Sounding it clear that the 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 mis-adventure envisaged 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.
Taking to task the Chief Minister for stopping the yatra while announcing in the cabinet meet, BJP said that Omar Abdullah has a strong separatist leaning who cannot shy away from appeasing his mentors and thus has embarked upon humiliating the nationalist surge of humanity that is reaching the state to hoist tricolor.
Speaking on the occasion, Nirmal Singh said, it was only due to Praja Parishad that tricolor reached the state of Jammu and Kashmir and to maintain sanctity of it, the nationalist people of the state are eagerly waiting to join the youth of country to hoist the tricolor in valley.
Ashok Khajuria added that the state BJP is all set to make necessary arrangements to see that the flag hoisting in the valley is done.
On a query over the state government’s strong stance not to let the yatra happen leading to any eventuality, all the three leaders said that onus would lie on the state government only.